Is social media killing our children? Shocking new evidence revealed | 60 Minutes Australia
Summary
TLDRThe video explores the devastating impact of social media on teen mental health, particularly for young girls. It highlights the rise in anxiety, depression, and eating disorders fueled by platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. The story features parents who lost their children to suicide after being drawn into dangerous online content, as well as experts advocating for age restrictions and holding tech companies accountable. It emphasizes the need for drastic measures to protect children from the harmful effects of social media addiction and exploitation.
Takeaways
- 📉 Teen mental health has been deteriorating globally since the early 2010s, especially among girls, due to the rise of smartphones and social media.
- 📱 Social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat are being accused of contributing to mental health issues, self-harm, and even suicides in young people.
- ⚠️ Studies indicate that platforms fuel harmful behaviors, particularly for vulnerable groups like girls, who engage in chronic social comparison.
- 💔 Personal stories highlight the tragic impact of social media addiction, such as cases of anorexia and suicides caused by exposure to extreme content and challenges online.
- 💡 Experts argue that the shift from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood is a key factor in the surge of mental health problems in teens.
- 👩🔬 Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt emphasizes that social media has created an international epidemic of depression, anxiety, and self-harm among teenagers.
- 🚨 Whistleblower Frances Haugen exposed that Facebook (Meta) was aware of the harms its platforms caused, particularly to teens, but chose profit over safety.
- 📚 Legal battles are emerging, with families suing social media companies for contributing to the deaths of their children by feeding them dangerous content.
- 🔒 Some regions, like Florida, are pushing for stricter regulations, such as banning social media for children under certain ages or requiring parental consent.
- 🌍 Calls for a global shift towards healthier, outdoor-focused childhoods are growing as experts advocate for reducing screen time and returning to more traditional forms of play and socialization.
Q & A
What significant change in the early 2010s contributed to the decline in teen mental health?
-The significant change was the widespread adoption of smartphones, particularly with the introduction of the iPhone 3G. This shift led to a phone-based childhood, where social media and high-speed internet became integral to daily life, especially for teens.
Why are girls more affected by social media compared to boys?
-Girls are more affected by social media because they tend to spend more time on it and are more vulnerable to chronic social comparison. The curated and filtered images on social media platforms contribute to feelings of inadequacy, particularly affecting girls' self-esteem.
What did Jonathan Haidt identify as the global cause of teen mental health issues?
-Jonathan Haidt identified the introduction of smartphones and the transition to a phone-based childhood as the global cause of mental health issues. This change led to increased anxiety, depression, and self-harm among teens, which began to rise sharply around 2013.
How did social media impact the mental health of Melbourne schoolgirl Katia Jasy?
-Social media exacerbated Katia Jasy's anorexia by feeding her extreme dieting content through its algorithms. Her social media feeds were dominated by low-calorie recipes and 'what I eat in a day' videos, which worsened her condition and led to hospitalization.
What role did social media play in the death of 15-year-old Liv Evans?
-Social media played a role in Liv Evans’ death by providing her with content that supported her anorexia and methods to end her life. Despite her father’s efforts to warn her about the dangers, she accessed harmful material that contributed to her suicide.
How did Jennifer Mitchell discover her son Ian’s dangerous engagement with social media before his death?
-Jennifer Mitchell discovered that her son Ian had been engaging with high-adrenaline, dangerous online challenges, including Russian Roulette. His social media accounts, especially Snapchat, fed him a stream of increasingly extreme content that led to his tragic death.
What was the significance of the Facebook files leaked by Frances Haugen?
-The Facebook files revealed that Facebook (now Meta) was aware of the harm its Instagram platform was causing, particularly to young girls. Despite internal reports identifying the harm, the company chose not to implement mitigations, prioritizing profits over the safety of children.
What legal action is being taken against social media companies for their role in teen harm?
-Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against social media companies, such as Meta and Snap, for their role in teen harm, including promoting harmful content. Lawyers like Matthew Bergman represent families whose children were negatively affected, arguing that the companies are responsible for designing addictive platforms.
What new law did Florida pass to protect children from social media?
-Florida passed a law that bans kids aged 14 and younger from using social media platforms. Children aged 15 and 16 need parental consent to access these platforms. The law aims to prevent social media companies from exploiting children through addictive design features like algorithms.
What does Jonathan Haidt suggest as a solution to the mental health crisis caused by social media?
-Jonathan Haidt suggests that the solution to the mental health crisis is to encourage children to have an active, outdoor-based childhood, similar to those seen in past generations or in movies. Reducing screen time and promoting real-world interactions could help reduce rates of mental illness among teens.
Outlines
📉 The Downward Spiral of Teen Mental Health
The paragraph discusses the alarming decline in teen mental health, particularly among girls, due to the pervasive influence of social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. It highlights the addictive nature of these platforms, suggesting that they prioritize profits over the well-being of children. The narrative is supported by social psychologist Jonathan Height's research, which indicates a global spike in teen mental health issues correlating with the rise of smartphone usage. The script also includes a personal account from a girl named Ktia, who developed anorexia, exacerbating her condition through social media's influence.
🚫 The Dangers of Social Media Algorithms
This section delves into how social media algorithms can exacerbate mental health issues, especially among young people. It tells the story of Ktia, who, during Melbourne's lockdown, was exposed to extreme dieting content that led to her anorexia diagnosis. The narrative also includes the tragic story of Liv Evans, who, after suffering from anorexia triggered by bullying, took her own life. Her father, Rob, recounts his experience trying to counteract the unrealistic beauty standards promoted by social media. The paragraph underscores the urgent need for action against the harmful effects of social media on youth.
📚 The Facebook Whistleblower and the Fight for Transparency
The paragraph focuses on the revelations from Frances Haugen, a former Facebook data scientist, who exposed internal documents showing that the company was aware of the harmful effects of its Instagram platform on children, particularly young girls. Despite this knowledge, Facebook chose not to implement mitigating measures to protect kids, prioritizing profits over their well-being. Haugen's testimony before the US Congress and the subsequent media coverage have intensified the scrutiny on big tech companies and their social media platforms.
💔 The Tragic Consequences of Social Media Addiction
This section presents a heart-wrenching account of Jennifer Mitchell, a mother who lost her son Ian to an online challenge known as Russian Roulette, which he found on social media. The narrative explores the addictive nature of platforms like Snapchat and their role in promoting dangerous challenges for likes and views. It also discusses the legal battle against Meta and Snap, with the family's lawyer, Matthew Bergman, arguing that these companies are responsible for the harm caused to children and should be held accountable.
🚫 The Push for Social Media Bans and Regulation
The paragraph discusses the growing movement to ban or restrict social media access for children due to the significant mental health risks. It mentions Florida's new law banning social media for kids under 14 and requiring parental consent for those aged 15 and 16. The law's supporter, Florida House Speaker Paul Renner, likens social media's addictive nature to digital human trafficking. The paragraph also explores the potential for similar regulations in Australia, with Communications Minister Michelle Roland considering various options to protect children from the harms of social media.
🌳 The Call for a Return to a Healthy Childhood
The final paragraph emphasizes the need for a shift from screen-based to play-based childhoods to improve mental health outcomes for children. It features social psychologist Jonathan Height's advocacy for reducing screen time and encouraging outdoor activities to foster a healthier development. The narrative includes personal reflections from Ktia, who is recovering from anorexia, on the importance of being aware of social media's negative impacts and the need for a balanced approach to its use. The segment concludes with a call to action for social media companies to promote positive content and remove harmful content to safeguard children's well-being.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Social Media
💡Teen Mental Health
💡Smartphones
💡Comparison Culture
💡Addictive Design
💡Algorithm
💡Suicide
💡Body Image Issues
💡Facebook Files
💡Regulation
Highlights
Teen mental health saw a drastic decline starting around 2012-2013, globally, particularly for young girls.
Social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat are increasingly seen as traps that harm young people's mental health.
New evidence links social media to rising cases of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and even suicide among teens.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt emphasizes the role of smartphones and social media in causing the global mental health crisis among teens.
The transition from a play-based childhood to a phone-based one starting in the early 2010s has contributed to the decline in childhood well-being.
Social comparison on social media, especially for girls, worsens mental health due to unrealistic beauty standards and edited images.
Ktia Jasy, a 17-year-old anorexia survivor, attributes her condition to the harmful content she found on social media platforms.
Social media algorithms exacerbate harmful behaviors by continuously feeding extreme content, as shown in Ktia’s case.
In 2019, Liv Evans tragically took her life after being influenced by harmful social media content, including extreme weight loss and self-harm.
Liv’s father Rob Evans sees social media as a platform that preys on vulnerable teens, making it harder for them to recover from mental health struggles.
A whistleblower from Facebook, Frances Haugen, exposed internal documents showing that the company knew Instagram was harming children, especially young girls.
Frances Haugen's testimony to the US Congress revealed that Facebook prioritized profit over child safety by neglecting to address known harms.
Jennifer Mitchell, who lost her son Ian to suicide after exposure to dangerous online challenges, is suing Meta and Snap for their role in his death.
Florida has passed a law that bans children under 14 from social media, and 15-16-year-olds must get parental consent to access it.
While social media bans could save lives, experts emphasize the need for more regulation to hold tech companies accountable for harmful content and addictive algorithms.
Transcripts
something happened globally that sent
Teen Mental Health spiraling downward
especially for girls terrifying and
heartbreaking everything changed in that
moment I think how did we get here the
New Evidence about social media it's a
trap that the company set for the kids
and the harm it's causing is Instagram
and Snapchat responsible for your son's
death
100% coming up next on 60 Minutes all of
my content on all of my feeds had just
been wared completely is it finally time
they unquestionably put profits before
kids to take drastic action they need to
make it adults only to save our children
if you took addiction children and harm
and monetization it sounds like
trafficking to me next
how much more evidence is needed before
the message is fully understood social
media is a serious health hazard
especially for young people it's messing
with their minds and in an increasing
number of tragic cases it's killing them
of course the tech Giants who control
the social media platforms downplay the
dangers but their views are compromised
by the enormous profits they make by
having children spend hours and hours on
their smartphones tonight calls to do
what to many is Unthinkable ban social
media for the young and a warning some
of the issues raised in this story are
confronting our kids lives have been
hijacked their young minds warped by
social
media 20110 to 2015 should be thought of
as the great rewiring of childhood we
lost the play-based childhood and we got
a phone-based childhood and that's what
is basically making our kids ill all
around the developed
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World New York based social psychologist
Jonathan height isn't holding back he
says big Tech is making our kids sick
even killing them and he's on a mission
to show the world the
proof we have an international epidemic
of depression anxiet y self harm and
suicide the F author been crunching the
data for years and what he's found is a
damning indictment what we saw was the
almost instantaneous transformation of
childhood into a form that I think is
incompatible with healthy human
development you call it the surge of
suffering you're not mincing words
you're not sugar coding it what does
your data show something happened in the
early 2010s that sent Teen Mental Health
spiraling downward so what we see in the
United States when we graph out the the
percent of American teens who suffer
from anxiety depression those who self
harm those who are hospitalized what we
see is very stable levels from the 1990s
through 2010 and then right around 2013
2012 suddenly a lot of Curves begin
going up very very sharply and we see
the same thing in the UK and the same
thing in Canada the same thing in
Australia the same thing in New Zealand
the same thing in the Scandinavian
countries and Northern Europe so
something happened globally that sent
mental health spiraling
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down professor H says what happened was
the transition from the fine to the
smartphone the new iPhone
3G the only theory on the table for why
you'd have a global change is the
massive change in their daily lives when
they adopted a phone-based childhood
based on having a smartphone the
front-facing camera social media and
high-speed
internet and he says young girls are the
most at risk they spend more time on it
and they're much more harmed by it
chronic social comparison all the other
girls look better than you they're all
using filters or carefully edited photos
so for a variety of reasons girls are
more attracted to social media and
they're more harmed by it
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that was exactly the case for melbour
school girl ktia
jasy you turn yourself into someone who
you didn't even know
existed an anorexia Survivor who says
social media exacerbated her condition
the 17-year-old and her mom Michelle can
remember the moment she signed
up when I was I think 10 years old uh
mom and I had a big argument about
whether I could go on Instagram and she
said no and I got an account anyways
because it's that easy and she got very
mad and you know we had this whole big
fight well that would have been such a
hard situation I me how do you say no to
your daughter in that situation it was
pretty stressful finding out that she'd
gone ahead and done it I mean she ended
up telling me so that was great but you
know once they're on they're on and the
rule is you're supposed to be 13 but how
easy was it to
exactly he takes 2 seconds you just put
in a different age and even if you enter
an age that's too young the first time
you can just go back and change it
anyway but it was during Melbourne's Co
lockdown in 20120 that Cartier's online
usage really ramped up there was a big
trend on all the socials to like have a
lockdown glow up so that when everybody
came out of lockdown you're like this
new person and it was portrayed that you
know you're just going to be so amazing
when you come out of this what seemed
like an innocent and healthy online
challenge to get fit soon spawned a
dangerous Obsession as algorithms pushed
more extreme dieting content to Cara's
social media
feeds I imagine the more and more you're
liking these videos the more and more
you're watching them you're just more
popping up your Instagram and Tik Tok
feeds yeah so it it ended up that you
know every other video was either a low
calorie recipe or what I eat in a day
someone's sick something like that so
all of my content on all of my feeds had
just been warped
completely months later ktia was
diagnosed with anorexia Noosa not long
after she was hospitalized m Michelle
Le's social media exploited her
vulnerable
daughter I think that it just fueled
like once she was sick that was it was
hard to get out of that uh that hole did
you think you could lose your daughter
absolutely yeah was pretty
hard yeah Hospital over and over again
and you know and the Met calls you know
cuz her heart was too too low would you
have gotten that bad if not for social
media I don't think so no because social
media is all about using each other as a
point of comparison but for this illness
in particular that point of comparison
can be
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deadly for Liv Evans at just 15 it was
deadly yeah and they also took two blood
test last year after an horrendous
battle with anorexia triggered by
schoolyard bullying leave took her own
life her dad Rob is still in
shock Liv was such a beautiful beautiful
girl when she was more physically able
she loved cheerleading like competitive
cheerleading she'd won a few
competitions with her team and she just
loved that and then like her her next
love was really around the the creative
artwork that that she had
drawing animals drawing uh nature like
as you have a look at her artwork you
can see just what it meant for
her but getting sickly thin meant even
more and social media was there to help
let's make it a little bit harder that's
it good up even as a fitness coach Rob
couldn't convince his daughter that what
she was seeing on Instagram was
unrealistic and dangerous
people that are saying uh you know I'm
I'm healthy and I live off 200 calories
a day that's no joke 200 calories a day
I said live they're lying I said you
have to understand that these people
might be saying they're healthy but I
said you cannot survive on 200 calories
a day and this is the reason
why Rob suspects lives deep dive online
took an even darker turn finding ways to
end her troubled life
when we found out some of these things
it's thought how did you find that right
and she she's just Googling all this
stuff or searching for it on social
media and finding finding a plethora of
it how many times did she
try thir
14 13
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file in April last year leave overdosed
Rob was told by doctors that his
daughter wouldn't survive she's
essentially brain
dead and that the only things keeping
her alive are the
machines so you need to make a
decision as to not if but when you want
to switch off the
machines because you will not
recover so yeah everything changed in
that that moment I think how did we get
here
s can't imagine you'll ever have to make
a more difficult decision in your life
the doctor
said she said I think Liv has made that
decision for
you did social media prey on your
daughter yeah whether it's intentional
or not I'd say yes but it provides the
perfect platform for people that are
vulnerable
to feel worse I mean it's got a it's got
a lot to to answer for um for
sure stories like lives and caras are
collated by the millions in Jonathan
Heights
evidence so social media is a trap it's
a trap that the company set for the kids
platforms are all inter aase to the
bottom of the of the grade school I
suppose you could say um they're
competing for not for customers they're
competing for
product coming up The Whistleblower who
says Facebook knew it was harming
children but did nothing they
unquestionably put profits before kids
Facebook is under Fire this morning
after hundreds of leaked documents
detail the inner workings of the world's
largest social media company social
media can be toxic for teens and the in
2021 the world got its first glimpse
into the Sinister inner workings of
social media GI Facebook book when
thousands of internal documents were
leaked making headlines across the world
the brave woman behind the bombshell was
Francis Hagen a former Facebook data
scientist I came forward because I saw
the negligence they were doing and I
knew that if I didn't speak out I would
lay in bed 20 years down the line seeing
those new chapters unfold of this
dystopian World knowing that I could
have done
something among the case of leaked
material were damning reports revealing
Facebook knew its Instagram platform was
damaging kids in particular young
girls what those documents showed was
that Facebook knew its products were
causing harm to kids that they had run
experiments trying to mitigate those
harms and chosen not to launch them so
to put it really bluntly they put
profits before kids they unquestionably
put profits before kids they refuse to
take responsibility I think Facebook
needs to declare moral
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bankruptcy shortly after blowing the
whistle France has testified before the
US
Congress the choices being made inside
of Facebook are disastrous for our
children and that is why we must demand
Facebook make changes meta says it's
taken action to find and take down
harmful content but Francis believes the
company hasn't done nearly enough enough
to change its business model since she
came forward and the leaks now known as
the Facebook files have become a water
shed moment placing big Tech firmly
under the microscope and that was a big
mistake just that seat of information
opened the door such that uh lawsuits
and the discovery process could begin
bringing out radically more information
and so that's how that little seat of
Truth has now spawned you know lawsuits
that may add up to tens of billions of
dollars of Damages for the
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company Jennifer Mitchell's case is one
of the lawsuits being waged in 2019 the
Florida mom lost her only child
Ian he was a loving boy he was very
funny um witty he
was great at academics just so bright he
was
loving and uh caring he was just he was
my
baby the 16-year-old was found dead in
his bedroom with a gunshot to his head
and his phone still recording by his
side I just knew something was very very
very
wrong and I wasn't quite sure what
everybody was telling me he killed
himself you know it was a suicide I I
still didn't know what to do with that
information I just kept trying to get
into his
phone eventually Jenifer was able to
crack into her son's social media
accounts and what she found is something
no mother should ever have to
see but it wasn't
suicide that must have been
gut-wrenching watching those videos it
was um it was awful watching those
videos I never saw the scene when my
when my son passed away I I never saw it
so after I watched those videos it was
almost as if I did see
it for years Ian had been dancing with
death addicted to high adrenaline VIs
videos which promoted a dangerous online
challenge Russian Roulette a dare he
accepted he filmed and posted three
videos to his Snapchat he didn't survive
the
fourth just how far down the rabbit hole
had and gone so we discovered that he
was being fed algorithm of like
adrenaline Danger videos video where
people were constantly putting
themselves at risk for um popularity the
likes and everything to ask you bluntly
is Instagram and Snapchat responsible
for your son's
death
100% Jennifer is now suing meta and snap
over her son's death and we're now in a
period of Discovery where we're going to
be able to have witness testify and
really kind of open up the hood and on
what is really going on uh with these
company the lawyer is Matthew Bergman
I'm ready for the challenge what did you
find digging into Ian's guys he was
doing exactly what the platforms were
designed to do they find some Niche and
they they keep giving you more and more
extreme content
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Matthew Bergman made his name fighting
for justice for asbestos cancer victims
after the Facebook files he launched a
law firms solely dedicated to fighting
for families whose kids have been harmed
by social media their stories are all
the same and they're all different uh
every one of them as a kid that had a
promising future uh became addicted to
social media uh in some cases they uh
developed Eating Disorders by being
taught to hate the way their body looks
in other cases they were taught to hate
the way they interact with other people
uh and in some cases took their lives
he's representing a staggering
2,500 clients with stories like Jif you
have a level of corporate
irresponsibility and misconduct that I
have never seen in 30 years of lawyering
that is a huge call Big accusation the
CEOs of these compan
you're saying they've got blood on their
hands and they refuse do anything about
it I do I do uh I don't know how they
sleep at night and unless and until they
have to bear the financial burden of
their deliberate design decisions their
behavior is not going to change taking
up the fighting Court's one thing
winning is something else are you having
any success in court we have had a
significant amount of success in uh
having courts allow us to at least move
forward
look as I say the the the the wind is at
our back uh but we've got a lot of
stormy seas
ahead for Jennifer Mitchell Justice
means more than just monetary
compensation she wants governments to
step up and ban kids from social
media those type of platforms with that
type of
algorithm to
be adults adults only kids shouldn't
be subjected to any of
that and she hopes a tough new law just
passed in her home state of Florida will
finally be the answer the world should
follow to stop other children suffering
the same fate as her boy an would this
ban have saved his life I believe it
would I I really believe you're going to
see a material drop in social media harm
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renowned for its beach resorts Swanky
golf courses and sunny climate Florida
is also Making Waves for taking on big
Tech from next year kids in this state
who are 14 years and younger will be
banned from social media 15 and 16y olds
will need parental
consent does that go far enough no but
it's a start I honestly think it should
be like 18 and above you know let let
them become an adult let their brains
develop a little
more it's too late for Mom Jennifer
Mitchell her son Ian was 16 when he shot
himself after becoming addicted to
playing Russian roulette a deadly online
challenge he saw on social media but
she's hoping the new law will protect
other
children my entire time in public
service
this is the most important thing I'll
ever work
on Florida house Speaker Paul Rena is
The Man Behind the bald band if you
asked me just a year ago Adam a social
media bad I'd say yeah kids are on too
much but what's the big deal but just
reading about it learning about it
learning the devastating effects it's
having on our children if you took
addiction children and harm and
monetization that sounds like
trafficking to me and so this is in my
mind a form of digital human trafficking
of our children that's a huge accusation
I believe
it the law applies to platforms that use
addictive design features like
algorithms and notifications and if they
don't properly vet the age of their
users they could be fined up to $50,000
us per
violation other US states have failed in
this endeavor bans have been thrown out
by the courts they've been blocked why
won't that happen again I think we've
taken a we've Hit The Sweet Spot of
focusing on The Addictive features but
time will tell the courts will tell us I
just can't imagine that the courts would
say that using children in an addictive
fashion that causes them harm from money
has anything to do with the right of
free speech where we're seeing major
major mental health harms including the
loss of our children forever to suicide
last year Rob Evans tragically lost his
daughter Leaf after the 15-year-old
researched Online ways to end her own
life now we got to he says it's time for
Australia to also step up and ban kids
from social media
RS I would liken where we are now to
like when we made the changes to the gun
laws and I think we're at that level
with social media and somebody needs to
say you know what this is just the right
thing to do yeah it's going to have some
backlash but we need to do this it's the
right thing to do you just have to make
a
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stand the woman who decide whether
Australia has the ability or the will to
take up the fight is Communications
Minister Michelle Roland what's on the
table is it an age limit ban is it
forcing companies to tame down their
algorithms what's being considered we
are considering all the available
options we will continue to closely
examine uh what is happening in Florida
so if the age liit ban in Florida works
we'll do it if it does work and it does
have the desired effect then it's
certainly something that we'll take on
board the minister has just announced a
federal inquiry into the harms of social
media that any new laws to protect our
kids could still be years away you've
seen the evidence you know what's going
on with kids in social media why are we
then announcing inquiries why are we
conducting reviews why aren't we just
writing up new laws to keep them honest
one of the key questions here is around
enforceability around the incentives and
around actually getting the platforms to
comply um with these rules and that
includes whether the penalties are
sufficient so in short you're looking
for ways to better hurt their bottom
line make them pay so they step up and
sort it out themselves where there is
the prospect of big fines that does have
a demonstrable
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effect I think a lot of the owners needs
to be placed on those social media
companies but even After experiencing
the devastating effects of social media
firsthand Kia ji and M Michelle don't
believe a band like floridas will work
instead they want big Tech to clean up
its
act you just can't all of a sudden take
it away I don't I don't think but I
think we can do more to keep people safe
I think it's unrealistic to expect that
responsibility to be placed on the users
of these platforms you know because
people are always going to find a way as
mom says but it's more about education
and promoting positive content and
removing negative content when you're
doing it t not nearly as muchmore ktia
is now in recovery from anorexia Noosa
while social media made her suffering so
much worse she hasn't cut it off
completely it's a long long journey um
and it's something that I'm going to
have to be consciously aware of
especially during difficult times to
make sure that I'm not slipping back but
W you feel like you're winning
absolutely despite his Grim calculations
it's a fight social psychologist
Jonathan hard thinks we can all win
but he says it's not just about banning
social media the key is getting kids off
their fights and back
Outdoors because if we're going to take
our kids off of their phone based life
if we're going to take away a lot of the
screen time that sounds like deprivation
but if we say instead no you know what
you get to have a childhood like we did
you get to have a childhood like you've
seen in the movies where kids are having
fun running around having Adventures
which childhood do you want sitting
alone in your room on your game or your
you're you're you know on on fortnite or
on social media or do you want to be out
with your friends and so if we can trust
our kids and trust each
other we can let our kids have a human
childhood and the rates of mental
illness will go down he's the world
ready to make that shift the world is so
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