Or a kid? The parent comment is either forgetting what it was like being a kid and doing things behind their parents back, not out of disrespect, but because they're young and it's what young people do, they are their own people as much as one might try to control them.
Also, good luck ostracizing a child from their peers for their "benefit"? (I remember a time where not having the same brand of clothes would get you ostracized, much less not being in the known of the current gen media)
This argument that social media is destroying the youth is the same old tale as old as time. Everything has been destroying the youth and rotting their brains since before anyone on this page was born. The devil music, violence in media, pot, unorthodox romance, (or you know, being a nerdy teen who spent a bit too long on their PC growing up in the 90s and their parents complained it was rotting their brain, which I'm sure a lot of people here can relate to and have made it their professional life) literally everything is destroying children, which we all were once.
As a parent of young children, I'm trying hard not to be the "but this time is different" guy, but it sure feels like this time is different. Just look around any "real world" setting and almost every single person is staring at their little dopamine-releasing devices.
> This argument that social media is destroying the youth is the same old tale as old as time. Everything has been destroying the youth and rotting their brains since before anyone on this page was born.
So therefore nothing will ever truly destroy our youth?
Obviously not literally, but I can see how social media can have a much more measured negative impact on youth vs. all the things above.
I don’t think any of the other things you mention have ever been blamed for also “destroying“ adults, but I’d argue there is evidence that social media is having a measured negative impact on all of society. But especially youth.
I think there’s a thread of truth here that it’s always “the kids are doing detrimental things” (which is kind of their duty in a way, to rebel and learn the lines of society)
But equally valid argument is the general moral decline we’ve seen in society over the last 80 years or so. Is it from a lack of spirituality/higher power belief? Is it just a byproduct of the Information Age?
It’s not just kids doing dangerous things, then growing up to have functionally healthy lives, we’re now seeing enormous levels of reported meaninglessness, even in higher age brackets.
Dating has become a crap shoot for many, especially after college.
For guys, if you’re not above average in looks, job, or life situation, you don’t attract average women. You essentially attract nothing. The apps are more zero-sum, and don’t follow a bell curve. You need to go to bars, or join a community of sorts (which have also been in decline outside of metro areas)
For women who want to start a family relatively young (mid 20’s let’s say), many of the men available are still living at home (housing affordability), without a stable career (expensive degrees that don’t produce jobs), or honestly haven’t grown up.
There are pieces for sure that resemble past generations, but layered on top is a multi-generational ailment that is culminating into a very dangerous societal discontent.
This argument that social media is destroying the youth is the same old tale as old as time. Everything has been destroying the youth and rotting their brains since before anyone on this page was born.
It's less than a cemtury old. Any older quote appears to be fake. It began with the boomers, who grew up on iron poisoned food, and it's been getting worse from the increasing lack of lead and other heavy metals. Similar events happened when an effective method of producing iron was discovered (people killed each other, and burnt almost the enrire civilization) and in late rome, when lead mining declined. High lead consumption was followed by eras of prosperity. You people really need to pull your heads out of your assess, and accept that the effects are too severe to be caused by some social bullshit trend, and the cause has to be biological (even if you disagree with me what the cause is)
yes but you a) had to be enterprising, and b) had pretty limited access to whatever was available in the recycled magazine bins and blurry TV channels (which wasn't much. I was also there), etc. Now it's 100% of anything you're told to desire, mainlined directly to your undeveloped brain with the flick of a finger.
Also, good luck ostracizing a child from their peers for their "benefit"? (I remember a time where not having the same brand of clothes would get you ostracized, much less not being in the known of the current gen media)
This argument that social media is destroying the youth is the same old tale as old as time. Everything has been destroying the youth and rotting their brains since before anyone on this page was born. The devil music, violence in media, pot, unorthodox romance, (or you know, being a nerdy teen who spent a bit too long on their PC growing up in the 90s and their parents complained it was rotting their brain, which I'm sure a lot of people here can relate to and have made it their professional life) literally everything is destroying children, which we all were once.