• _number8_@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    what a fucking dogshit state. not that social media is good for anyone, but restricting kids from one of their main forms of communication / news / outlet to the world is just designed to be obnoxious.

    even best case scenario, active malice aside, these people somehow have zero memory of what it was like to be a kid; having to wake up for school at 6am and do endless homework for no material benefit, and now this

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      10 months ago

      Question: How old are you?

      Social media wasn’t known until I was 16(?) and I’m a millennial. So no these people did not grow up with social media as most politicians are older than me.

      It’s insane you think kids today need social media like they need exercise, fun and oxygen.