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Well then those kids should have voted. ... Oh. ;)
Fuck off, Meta. My children tell me they want to try cigarettes, driving, using an excavator, and rifles and every time I fail to consider their voices. Actually, I consider it and the answer is an easy, "no." Considering the evidence, social media like FB appears to be quite deleterious to people's mental health, young people in particular.
100% - Meta's opinion on this matter is absolutely irrelevant.
I’d let them try out an excavator as long as I got a turn, too.
I use social media from time to time. The amount of misinformation that is created and spewed without consequence is really alarming. A lot of it is dangerous. People give medical advice and pretend to be doctors. That should be illegal.
If they could filter out all the garbage content and just have children cartoons, comics, food, and cute animals, I would be fine letting kids watch it from time to time.
Pretending to be a doctor is illegal.
Some ways I saw around this is by being in another country, and/or getting some bullshit PhD. I see a lot of chiropractors giving nutrition advice.
Even if they don't call themselves doctor, they will say they are a medical practitioner, or health expert because of their self published PDF book or their shitty blog.
Not only that, lots of things that sound like official medical titles aren’t. As such they aren’t protected at all but do mislead the public.
Doesn't stop karen from pushing essential oils and crystal healing.
Did she do her own research at least?
Well, she didn't publish so who knows?
You don't consider Lemmy social media? Honest question.
That's an actual issue I see with this law: how does one define social media? I've seen YouTube described as social media which I find highly dubious but I can't really explain why.
Under 16 year olds probably shouldnt be on lemmy either.
Even this tiny social media network has plenty of misinformation and bullshit a tween/teen likely could not parse well.
I do consider Lemmy and Reddit and other content aggregators social media.
I might be mistaken but I think being able to comment on YouTube and anyone is able to upload a video puts it in the social media category.
Wouldn't that make many (most?) news sites social media since they let you comment on articles? (IMDB dodged a bullet?)
Sorry I edited my comment. I think the difference, not just being able to comment, but is being able to post. Like not everyone is able to post an article in Gizmodo but anyone can post a video on YouTube, or a story on Instagram.
This is just my own thoughts on it. I don't actually know what the official definition of social media is.
Ah, I see what you're saying. That might be a way of looking at it.
Pretty sure cigarettes went through the same thing. Harder to hook them when they're older if you don't hook em young.
Yeah. This rings of tobacco companies trying to convince everyone that cigarettes are good to them.
"considering young people's perspectives or evidence" LOL eat shit fuckerberg
last i heard, the evidence showed that fb and other social medias overrun with "influencers" provide zero benefit, but instead cause self-image problems and depression at best, completely unaddressed cyberbullying and suicide at worst.
fuck the lot of social medias. it's bad enough that grown ass adults are so addicted to it
Meta concerned with people when they can't abuse them.
They can still go to school and watch tv, thats all the social and media they need respectively
What about the kids who come to terms with their gender or sexuality through social media?
What about the kids who use social media to connect with other people who share their experiences of being visible minorities?
What about the kids who get their sex education from social media because their parents pulled them out of sex ed classes at school and you sure as shit don't get that stuff on the tv?
What about the kids who never understood that what their uncle is doing to them is actually sexual abuse until they were able to talk about it through the pseudo-anonymity of social media? The kids who learned survival strategies through social media? The kids who only managed not to kill themselves because of the friends they made online?
Do any of them matter?
Of course those things matter. What is important is that minus the social media, we as a society need to build healthy and affirming alternatives to compensate for this gap. The hard part is figuring out what forms those should take and how to keep them from having similar pitfalls.
There are plenty of places on the internet at large where those resources exist outside of social media. Restricting minors from posting (but not reading) might also be an effective alternative to a total ban. Though in either case there is little you can do to stop them from just lying during sign up
This is what worries me about social media bans for kids, there are no local resources as readily available and anonymous as the internet for dealing with the issues you mentioned, and I've not seen any talk about increasing funding for those sorts of services.
I'm not sure if the good social media provides to these kids outweighs the bad that it's causing, but at the least I want to see alternatives being discussed.
What about the kids who come to terms with their gender or sexuality through social media?
Seriously? This is legit a concern of yours?! Yall crazy.