"I think child safety and mental health on social media is a real cipher for broader anxieties about what the internet and networked society is doing to the culture, and the rapidly accelerating gulf between generations as a result. Anyway, it’s interesting that these stories do seem to hit hardest (moreso than, say, huge data breaches or surveillance.)"
I might do a full post on this sometime. But in a lot of the broader complaints about kids on social media – everything from the negative effect excessive screentime, body image on social media, bullying, mental health etc come across as ways of getting at a growing sense that something is deeply wrong or aberrant about the digital native generation, and that companies like Facebook are complicit. Cambridge Analytica and similar scandals come and go, but it feels like ones about these issues really stick and lead to a much stronger defence from the companies in question.
"I think child safety and mental health on social media is a real cipher for broader anxieties about what the internet and networked society is doing to the culture, and the rapidly accelerating gulf between generations as a result. Anyway, it’s interesting that these stories do seem to hit hardest (moreso than, say, huge data breaches or surveillance.)"
Love to hear you expand on this :))
I might do a full post on this sometime. But in a lot of the broader complaints about kids on social media – everything from the negative effect excessive screentime, body image on social media, bullying, mental health etc come across as ways of getting at a growing sense that something is deeply wrong or aberrant about the digital native generation, and that companies like Facebook are complicit. Cambridge Analytica and similar scandals come and go, but it feels like ones about these issues really stick and lead to a much stronger defence from the companies in question.