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I worry a lot about the generation of kids coming up with full access to the internet and social media. Their schooling and social contact was all completely online during COVID. Being constantly connected to everything by the internet is all they’ve ever known. Yet they still feel lonely and alienated. Depressed, anxious. The statistics on self harm and suicidal thoughts with teens are insane and so scary.
I feel like at a certain point when they grow up and understand the ramifications it will be studied as a sort of generational trauma and they’ll tell us, as parents, you should have protected us better… I do what I can but corporations and politicians DO NOT have their best interests at heart. If they are addicted to their products and making them money…that’s all they want.