Meet the teens lobbying to regulate social media | 60 Minutes 

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And yet here you on social media. The irony isn’t lost on me

It has only exposed it.

Whos claiming that brains got swapped during a birthday? Wtf

@@jonathanzuluaga4920 I guess you had a tiktok brain and thus only read the first sentence;)

You just realized all that? Lol

@@jonathanzuluaga4920 The laws only apply to children, watch the video.

Absoulutely!!

Are you saying their parents are responsible for everything? If not, focus on the part they are not.

@@aleksandarbanjanin6437 , yes. As a parent you are responsible for your children. And if you aren't involved in their lives enough to recognize that they are having social-emotional disorders then you are a negligent parent, at best.

in 2014 that was very normal

N For Crying Out Loud DONT GIVE YOUNG KIDS CELL PHONES AS YOUR BABY SITTER.

Part of the problem though is that, not only is social media addicting for both kids and adults, but most kids are smart enough to know ways to sneak around their parents in general. This has been true with parenting for centuries, even long before social media existed (I remember growing up sneaking around my parents' backs to watch things, back when television was the addictive substance before social media replaced it, and kids have been capable of sneaking out of their parents' houses for generations).

@@Scarshadow666 the very act of sneaking around would limit the ability and time of the child to engage in harmful behaviors, making it extremely less likely that such behaviors would occur and, if they did, in such amounts as to cause what these girls experienced.

They can compare themselves to the homeless and help them out

The real question is why were you letting your 14 year old child consume media she was not mentally mature enough to understand. The problem isn't with the media, it is with the way you failed your child and want to blame others.

Ah that ol wall telephone-Miss weaving throughout the house with that long cord haha

I agree. I also feel two ways about this. On the one hand, social media is ubiquitous in our world, and I'm not sure it's realistic to expect teenagers to wait until they're 18 to opt in. Humans are wired for social connection, and we don't live in a day where "community" is largely defined by our neighbors anymore; community is now found online for many of us. This is the way of the world, and the way of the world that kids grow up in. Their ask does not appear to be unreasonable since they're not talking about regulating social media at large, but just for 13- to 17-year-olds. That, of course, requires honesty from teens about their age when they sign up for accounts, which leads to the other hand: On the other hand, companies are not the ones who have the onerous to ENSURE that teenagers grow up with positive self-worth, or that they don't spend too much time online. That's the parents' jobs. I'm concerned about this widespread sentiment that we have in our society today that if I feel bad, I must look for someone other than me to blame. Certainly, social media companies are designing their platforms to have an addictive quality--they want us to remain online for as long as possible. But if your kid becomes addicted to any given substance and you never took the time to warn them about what that substance can do, is there no room for self-reflection? The mantra of our day is, "I cannot be held responsible for my own actions, choices or words." It is very troubling.

@@lailas.3205 Well said.

I agree. My first account was on Tagged in the early 00s, then MySpace, I rejected Black Planet, got FB, rejected Twitter because I could write a status on FB lol, got IG, and I’ve deactivated all of those years ago. Life is pretty chill lol

Watching television isn’t mandatory either, but our society agreed there should be a ratings system to protect children from harmful content. Putting some guard rails on social media is a good idea, although a better idea is to trash it all together.

Teach kids about not giving in to peer pressure to join in online with their friends/aquaintances (and sticking with their decision to not be online) if they experience it too. I often let people know that I wasn't interested in joining Facebook/Twitter/etc, and had only relented to a Discord account at least (an account I rarely use). Though I also agree with the mixed feelings about it too. As an artist that was taught that networking is a big deal for artists (and social media being the main area most artists network from), the pressure to join in on social media can be intense.

@@endlessnameless6494 : I never thought of it that way but what you said makes sense about children from broken homes due to divorce being resentful of children from stable 2 parent households. Another good friend of mine’s parents divorced in his senior year of high school and it had the same effect on him as my other friend I mentioned in my original post. He became bitter and cynical and used me as his whipping boy when he needed to take out his frustrations on someone. My second friend was a sad case: one Xmas he had nowhere to go because of his fractured family so I invited him to my parents house for Xmas dinner. My parents knew of his situation and were very kind to him, even buying him a couple of nice Xmas gifts. While my friend was grateful for my family’s kindness, I sometimes think it made him feel even worse about his family situation.

Lmao I love how uploading pics became an issue.

I think they’ve done studies that show social media has negative effects on mental health. It might not be that she’s not happy for them. Sometimes it’s just triggering for people.

@@luckyDancer100 social media has negative effects on the mental health of jealous people but not people who don't suffer from that antisocial personality trait called jealousy and envy.

She didn't word it perfectly but stop it lol. She clearly ment it as seeing everyone live a perfect life (dinners, gifts, cars, money, makeup, whatever x us interesting to your age group) all the time pushed in your face when its clearly not something a developing human mind should be dealing with

@@Andre-qg2ie Yeah bruv thanks for disproving hundrets of studies with thousands of participants by simply being cool😎😎

Very true words. Government don't care and we can't blame them. It is up to us to be smart and educated about this.

The right here, restricting or flat out not allowing social media is a parenting responsibility.

If you do not teach your kids to make good decisions themselves, you will be in for a bad surprise. You cannot make all the decisions for them forever. And you will probably learn too late that you already lost control.

they want everyone else in the world to be censored for them.

How on earth would that help? That's like trying to fight a fire with gasoline. These companies already have more information about their users than any government could ever dream of, that's their entire business model, the only reason they exist is to collect data on their users and discover more and better ways to manipulate them to make them more attractive to advertisers so they can charge more for more tightly targeted ads. I fail to see how requiring users to supply them with even more personal data gives them any reason to do anything differently, all they care about is keeping eyeballs focused on screens, period.

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Yeah, and drinking alcohol is illegal if you're a minor. That's kinda what they want, right? They want to restrict access for minors and make it save for young people to use. And that not being the case while these apps are still aimed at very young people alot of time is something these companies should be held accountable for.

No gun to your head. Go see the homeless and ask about real issues

true, but you will always lose to the downward spiral of social media

Agree, but do not underestimate the power of a computer algorithm designed to focus on a singular task.

I agree that’s it’s powerful but you cannot and must not view yourself or your kids as powerless. You have the power and the choice. Stay strong! I know it’s not easy.

Gen Z at its finest. Zero accountability

How do you enter an app? You got starving families out there but somehow this made up issue became a thing

@@mkhanman12345 its not a made-up issue, and obviously you don't understand what kids are going through these days. Everyone has a smartphone these days, and now everyone is getting bullied/sexually harassed and/or targeted for their demographic by advertising, mainstream media which one could argue is demonic and downright evil. We need to be more aware of how much social media can have negative affects so we can protect future generations from this onslaught of abuse and lies for profit.

You're absolutely correct. This is why I always tell my daughter to be mature enough to take control over those social media web sites and do not allow those "web" sites to control her.

I know I hate "victims" even more who act all empowered and like "I'm a strong victim of abuse" blah blah blah

Says the person commenting, literally using social media.

@@Rayfanz1 I’m gonna say perhaps Duke Lynch doesn’t have an issue with social media, hence he can use it without harm. That’s his choice, parents need to do the same thing and step up and be an actual parent.

@@Rayfanz1 He's talking about the people trying to regulate it.

I enjoy and manage my social media time very well. Who are you to decide to get rid of something for me? If you don’t like it, don’t use it. And who is, “we?”

said the person on a social media website lol

The current algorithms aren't facilitating freedom of speech or human measure whatsover.

U caused your own depression