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Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16 (www.goodmorningamerica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I would suggest that it didn't happen in its most well known form until we were older (MySpace launched just after I graduated high school), but it did exist. Communities and message boards were a thing before MySpace and Facebook.

Kids today do need a sense of community. And we have enshittified the outside so much that they aren't likely to get that spending time in public. How far will this spread? Social media isn't just Instagram, or xitter, or the like. It's also things like steam, or video game forums, or anything with a chat feature. Kids make meaningful connections with others this way. Not all social media is bad.

How many afterschool clubs still exist? How many group activities are catered around school (but not school) these days that aren't sports? Where is the place that is for kids in our communities?