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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 months ago (10 children)

So teens who don't fit in well in the IRL spaces that are available to them should have 0 ways to have social interactions?

If teen me hadn't had the internet, I would have 0 joyful memories whatsoever of my teen years. Anyone sympathizing with the ideas in the OP is in my mind purely evil and oppressive, I have no other words to describe this.

[–] jBoi@szmer.info 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Are you genuinely comparing social media to social interactions? Twitter for example is like a parody of what social interactions are, and I think this article is talking about things like Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and other algorithmic platforms that give the user an anonymous feed of slop. I can't imagine this is advocating for a ban on platforms like fb messenger, WhatsApp, ect. that aren't nearly as invasive and generally do serve a good social function.

The case isn't clear for platforms like reddit and Lemmy imo, on one side they do have a slop feed effect, but they also feel a lot less aggressive to me for some reason.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Sounds like it's the platforms that are the issue, not the kids. Would you believe that maybe the corporations havent been acting with ours or our children's best interests at heart and should, shock horror, be forced into doing that? It's almost like designing social media to be an ad casino shouldn't have been allowed.

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