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Exactly... so it's an overall education and support problem. We want good children to make good parents who make good children.
If the parents arent there for the child, then the child will suffer. So the governments should be focusing on education, mental and social support. Not blanket banning of social media. Social media is only a problem because we let it become one through complacency and a lack of proper systems to support our youth.
Can you be more specific about the kind of support you're suggesting? I think social media is addictive just by the nature of it, even for adults, and I'm not able to imagine a way to combat it short of regulating it away.
There's no overnight solution, it would take generations, but a lot of issues in society stem from poor upbringings, children who feel alone. Schools should be more than schools, with support programs for children with different learning needs, a place they always have an adult to talk to.
We should be teaching children about addictions and their effects, better educating them on the dangers of social media, not just about creeps, but how algorithms work, the dangers of big corporations and how they would seek to control your life and suck money from you.
Schools should be fun, make kids learn without them realising it. Take them out on trips to places, let them see the world they might not see from their homelife. There should be plenty of extra-curricular activities for children to engage in, get them interested in something, give them places to play sport, hangout and stuff with friends outside of school hours. While social media is addictive, if you give them something else to do, something they are interesting in that's easily accessible to them, a lot will do that instead.
Children with mental or physical health issues need to be looked after better, with facilities to support them, whether its during school hours or after. Children should be ready for the world as much as possible when they turn into adults, but they should still find that same care and support available after growing up.
The world is fucked and it all starts from the bottom, capitalism has choked every cent out of these systems. Then their fix is to just ban social media? No. That's to exert control, not to benefit our future generations.
Look, I hate facebook, twitter, tiktok whatever as much as anyone and would love to see them banned outright, but that's not going to solve anything. New ones would appear. We wouldnt be discussing anything here with a social media ban. We have to try and weed out the dependency on social media, bans wont work.