Meta must face US state lawsuits over teen social media addiction

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4. What is frightening is when teens talk about their 'BFF'...

And, then you find out that this BFF who they swear is so close to them and more than family is someone on Snapchat who they have never seen in person and cannot even prove that the person is who they say they are. This is happening all the time and yet parents don't seem too worried about it because so many of them meet in online games and these airhead parents seem to think only fellow students would be there in the first place.

And yes, placing outsized importance on these internet lives is scary as well. Some kids really think that these sycophants are actually their friends. They think they are 'trendsetters' and 'influencers' and yet they only seem to bring stupidity and shallow mindedness to their followers. I don't know who is more pathetic: these so called 'social media stars' or their desperate followers.

It has to stop. Regardless of how many adults it happens to 'inconvenience'.

(I was telling the students at the school where I worked all of this. This was as these platforms were being created and implemented.
Everyone thought I was being stupid. Mostly the parents.)