My thoughts on social media bans everywhere is that if you're taking digital connections away from teens, you better make sure they have third spaces for physical connection, and give them options for transport that is not "parents drive us around" otherwise all you're creating is isolation.
And you may not need a social media ban if you start by preserving and creating those third spaces. #SocialMedia
And you may not need a social media ban if you start by preserving and creating those third spaces. #SocialMedia
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juliette
in reply to juliette • • •In the last decades (probably the last century actually) spaces to just hang out in public have decreased, while roads have become less safe for light road users - pedestrians and cyclists, which teens overwhelmingly are.
Additionally, online spaces have become a refuge that didn’t use to exist for teens looking for communities that are hard to find - anything from very specific nerdy hobbies to LGBTQ+ groups. 2/4
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in reply to juliette • • •We need guardrails in social media, for everyone’s well-being:
- stop endless scrolling
- end advertising based on history and social media behaviour
- support parents and teens to put freely chosen boundaries
- GIVE TEENS A VARIETY OF OPTIONS FOR SOCIALISING
- stop thinking we’ll end bullying by banning the medium and work on root causes
- fund real, effective mental health support for those going down unhealthy digital roads.
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in reply to juliette • • •"If you bell the cat, it will only make the cat a better hunter."
These social media bans are just going to force kids into deceitful underground behavior, further contributing to the schism between teens and adults.
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