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[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thanks, I like your comment and I agree that I think people just aren't evolved to have millions of fans/followers. If you look at people that got famous at a young age, most (maybe almost all) of them turned out into pretty unstable people. I'm taking about tv/movie stars here. Nowdays young people not only get famous, but also are bombarded with endless comments, lots of them very negative.

Even for young people that are not famous at all, when other kids around you always share things online where it looks like they have a much much "better" life, it messes you up. So many people just pretend to have a great life online, but never share all the bad stuff that also happens.

If you grow up with social media, you grow up with a complete fake version of reality. I kind of fear for the moment my kids will be old enough to want to join social media. As a parent you can't really stop them and I also don't want to be the super controlling parent anyway. It's something that scares me because I know I will have to deal with it in a few years.