As an adult I have to say that my brain did not get swapped at one of my birthdays. These exploitative features work on adults, too. We have to realize that the product we are getting from tech companies is the maximization of screentime. There is nothing else with anywhere near the same financial pressure on it. No matter how wholesome content creators design their content, in the end, the point is to glue us to our smartphones, tablets, or computers. We need to decide as a society what we want to make of that product. I think we misunderstood it a lot so far. The same goes for dating apps. These are not apps to get us dates, they are apps to keep us interested in the process of browsing potential dates to show us ads.
As an adult, social media is terribly triggering. It's Iike junior high all over again. Adults get affected too. My sons are grown now but I feel for young adults and teens and those adults triggered by abusive speech and judgmental attitudes. If it gets to be too much, take as many breaks as you need to. Socialization, healthy socialization is important for people of all ages. But ... Everything in moderation. ❤️
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.
Those tech companies didn't buy them their computers and phones. So why blame those companies for their issues and beg politicians to use force to solve their problems? Are their parents not responsible for anything?
@@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.
We used house phones no cell phones & I grew up to be a successful young lady I can openly say that these cell phones will & have destroyed our youth to the point where my kids grab their phones before they grab a toothbrush in the morning 😮 these are some young successful ladies & what you are doing is awesome
I’m a millennial, but my parents didn’t let me get a phone until I was 16. I didn’t have a smart phone until I was 20 (tho I did have an iPod touch, but it wasn’t connected to data). It’s scary to see kids as young as 12 trying to emulate adults and adult behavior in such a toxic way. I think all this exposure to the world only adds to the sexualization of girls. I never felt this whole comparing myself to others with social media. What I hated was being available alllll the time. And I still do. That’s why I don’t have Facebook or IG anymore.
I agree with them, but I have mixed feelings. Using social media is not mandatory. It's best to learn at an early age to not always feel the need to join the bandwagon. That's where parents should step in, but the problem is that the parents suffer from FOMO, too. I never got on Facebook when it was started, never got on Myspace.. I haven't logged into IG in two years and refuse TikTok or Snapchat, in the same way I refused FB. Teach kids that it's okay to not want to do or to be just like everyone else, and that's a real start to changing this. Teach them that most ppl on social media are lying about their lives anyway, so that removes the glossiness and reduces the depression causing envy.
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.
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.
As a Mother of a 14 yr old I have seen with my on eyes what social media has done to my child. She has severe depression high anxiety low self esteem and bulimia. All because she was comparing herself to others. She has been in treatment and has a very supportive family who loves her. We have to stop these tech companies who only care about profit not that our children are suffering.
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.
We don't need big government to replace parenting, we need parents to take back control of their children. Everything starts at home , it's easy to blame big tech. Instead of ourselves.
After I watched the documentaries The Social Dilemma, The Great Hack, and Childhood 2.0 , I realized the enormity of this issue. I applaud these young people.
Not gonna lie, it’s 100% user error. The fact that you base your self-worth off of “likes” and “followers”? That’s not the company‘s fault… It’s your fault. It could be blamed on your upbringing as well. Apparently no adult in your life cared enough to teach you not to base your self-worth on the opinion of others. If you fall into the rabbit hole of thinking that’s what you need to have in your life to make you a worthwhile person? That’s a weakness in THE USERS character.
Regarding social media all I can say is I am glad it wasn’t around when I was a teenager. When I was 15 back in 1968-69 I was bullied/ostracized by a group of 5 boys who were led by a former good friend of mine whose parents went through a very acrimonious divorce that turned him into a very cynical and nasty bully. He turned on me because I think he was jealous of the fact that I lived in a secure and loving home with my biological parents and brother. If social media had been around back then the harassment would probably have been much worse for me. I was able to escape it by transferring to a different high school in 11th grade which made a huge positive difference. My grades greatly improved and I made a new group of friends. I do have a Facebook account but I am rarely on it. It seems like so many active FB users love to make their “look at me and my fabulous life” posts and it’s almost like they live their lives in the surreal online world.
@@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.
It's great to see them trying to save the next generation and essentially society as a whole. The only thing people can do that actually impacts these companies ethics is voting individually with their attention, time, and money. The government won't save us from this.
This person claimed that seeing her friends live happy lives made her more depressed and is harmful content. Never crossed her mind to be happy for them. These are just jealous people crying about it. So they want to change these apps so jealous people don't get their little feelings hurt because they are jealous. pathetic!
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
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.
The CEO of alphabet (which owns Google) has access to the nudes of millions of people. The average person doesn't believe or care about that. If I said the same thing but it was ANY head of a government state, you would be outraged. The amount of your life directly under the control of major corporations is a problem you are taught to never see.
I would love to see more done on a federal level for kids rights in school for bullying. Seems only the upper class have any say in the matter, because they are rich and can afford going to court in the first place.
TG the young are going to save our society; just as was done in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s…but not for a long time since. A certain apathy and ignorance set in and now there is an awakening. Hallelujah!
It was always a drug. What did we expect when we walk around seeing kids in phones in public addicted. Slumped over in parks. Standing around in hallways or stores transfixed. China limits the phones. They will not lets kids get addicted. They have time linits
1st amendment. Government can not censor speech that is protected. What the government can do is require social media companies to verify user identity using government documentation. IE drivers license or state id
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.
I still don't understand what these girls actually want to happen besides turning off autoplay. Why don't they just stay off social media that they don't like? Nobody is forcing them to join FB or IG or any of it.
Don’t play the victim. There will always be a peddler out their (drugs, sex, social media) so we as parents need to remain engaged with our kids and vigilant in our own lives.
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.
Economic productivity has grown consistently in America for decades. On the other hand, wages haven't moved since the late 70's. As a result, parents have to work twice as long to make the same wages. When finished, they're much more likely to isolate, medicate or just go to bed. When combined with the development of social media today's kids have been placed at extreme risk of a wide variety of negative consequences. Imagine growing up in the home of an absentee parent or, worse, one defeated by today's professional demands. American employers have been cutting corners for decades at the expense of its workers. Initially this wasn't such a big deal. Not anymore. This is a dynamic that has compounded yearly, for decades. Parents are being placed in impossible situations and the results are terrible. This is not a moral failing of the parents. They're simply being squeezed to death. I can't help but wonder if these draconian economic practices are the root cause of our nation's problems, be they crime and drugs, greed and pettiness or fascism and hate. I offer no solutions, however, the situation is unlikely to self correct.
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?”
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I'm so glad I grew up without internet, gaming consoles and smartphones. We actually talked to our friends face to face and went outside to play and ride bikes, play sports. Our friends were actually real friends and didn't have to worry about how many likes we got or what a person that you don't know or ever met talked crap about you from across the country or even the globe but can't say it to your face. Online bullies can't say something bad to someone's face only online and most have a fake profile.
They should hold themselves accountable. They chose to get involved no matter how you look at it. No social media platform forced them . Example ...I drink sometimes, so does Billy Bob over there. Billy gets in his car and plows over 2 people ...they are trying to tell us that it was the alcohols fault, not Billy's; he was just innocently drinking and should just sue whoever manufactured the alcohol.
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.
Parents HAVE to learn the POWER of the WORD - NO ON THEIR CHILDREN from a VERY EARLY AGE. Once upon a time, we used to say, "I'll call you when i get home." Social media is NOT going to CHANGE. The cat has been let out of the bag. BIG MONEY & TECH = CONTROL.
Kids are growing up too fast..worrying about things they shouldnt be worrying about , instead of having fun..You only get to have one childhood. I have yet to see kids playing outside together or going to the mall with friends, which was one of my highlights growing up. We'd shop at Sids, and buy our Levi's or corduroys, Carpenter pants were big back then in the 70s....and then go to woolworth and have lunch, or buy a ice cream cone at Friendly's. We couldn't get enough fresh air. We walked, rode our bikes, and had fun. Who wanted to sit home..that was called punishment in my day. So sad..I wouldn't want to be growing up at this time.
72 Baby here and we grew up when TV went off at 12 PM, once you saw that flag you knew no more TV for the night. And as far as socialization, we loved being outside walking to where we needed to go and even though we had a house phone my parents shut that off at a certain time.Ijs
High school football is also horrible for teens and their health. Should we make high school football touch and not tackle by default? Do high schools need to be held accountable and stop exploiting student demand for such a harmful sport? I don't think so. People are increasingly opting out of football for all these reasons. The same can be true for social media.
Their execution felt incredibly rehearsed, especially the way the second women smiled while talking. Just sounds like some parent’s idea of extra curriculars to beef up their young resumes. However Nobel their cause is, I do wish them good luck.
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.
@@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.
Bravo for these two young ladies for stepping up, to open up the platform that needs to talked about.Keep up the good work. We'll spoken and thought out.
Stopping social media bullying is not going to stop bullying altogether, and it does not stop the underlying cause of why teenaged these days are fixed on to their phones. When you have house holds where you need a dual income to survive, parents become to busy to engage with their children. That in turn makes kids want to get validation and belonging through other means
It’s wild how fast it’s changed, I was a freshman when the iPhone came out, my senior year the iPhone 4 came out. I remember jail breaking my iPod touch so it could use as a phone. What other revolution has advanced at this rate.
Social media absolutely destroys mental health. What I find is that the people who post most about how they're "living their dream", the more it's an absolute lie.
These two girls are clowns., blaming social media for “you” going on social media willingly.. then u think u could sue… y u think your parents ain’t want u on it smh
I'm sorry but Big Tech doesn't have to care what you are choosing to do. No one forces anyone to be online. How do you regulate peer pressure on social media? We are responsible for ourselves.
It needs to happen. These companies getting rich from our children’s mental health. It’s disgusting that there is nothing really governing these sites. These tech companies get proper regulations on these sites.
I'm not sure the problem is regulating social media, it's regulating "NEWS". Any social media platform that is publishing content that is considered news should abide by some standard to ensure that information has been verified before it is available there.
Could do what south Korea does and force the companies to register all users and make sure the people are real and are held accountable for all the rancid crap that they/we do. They have some sort of social security number registration thing.
I fail to understand how this has anything to do with social media. It seems clear that the problem was that their parents were handing them money and technology they were not ready for and the parents failed to monitor their children or even pay attention enough to their lives to recognize when they were developing significant social-emotional disorders. This is a parental failure, not a social media failure.
I would love to see America's youth protest the harm generated by online media with the same energy and vigor and persistence that my generation - the baby boomers - put forth to push for women's rights!
I'm really glad RUclips no longer shows the number of dislikes on a video. I think that was a very unhealthy thing, and I think those numbers were manipulated by third parties to influence opinions and attitudes of US citizens -- in order to breed extremism and conflict. When the number of dislikes was massively larger than the number of likes on a serious news video about the pandemic, for example, it created the sense that the world (or at least the RUclips audience) was dominated by conspiracy theorists who thought the pandemic was some kind of false flag or hoax. It left me feeling anxious and depressed, and made me turn away for a time (perhaps the risk of users "turning away" is why RUclips changed it). They say that the two main ways to change behavior in a democratic, capitalist society are "voice" (i.e., speak up about one's concerns) and "exit" (i.e., stop using the particular platform or service).
The current online algorithm is inherently harmful. It cannot be not so. Because what gets promoted most will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be what is MOST alarming, upsetting, horrifying, argumentative, insulting, frightening, etc. , etc. , etc. Fix the d___ thing!
It's a societal problem, not a problem with social media itself. It cannot be regulated, it wouldn't solve anything. The only "solution" is to stop using the apps and services one would deem harmful.
I sometimes long for a day like I saw as a child when everything just shut down at midnight!! What's wrong with that? God bless our children. and these young ladies.
@@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.
How about you teach your kids what my mother taught me since I was Lil sticks and stones might break my bones but words will never hurt me. Also kids are being raised to be babies like if you can't handle it don't get on. Also parents need to Also be held accountable to if you let your kids be on those platforms then don't say anything when things happen. I'm so over when people that can't handle the internet yet be the first ones to be on it and if your weak just STOP. THATS IT! What is suing going to do???? Give you money lmfao I'm can't deal
I think people just need to stop being so sensitive and vulnerable to mental health. And the parents should have known better. But regulation is cool to
Our entire country (me included) is focused on meaningless crap aka social media while no one is minding the store (our infrastructure, substations, etc.)
I don't understand this. If social media contributed to their decline in mental health, then stop using it. Oh yeah, they're just kids. What do they know? Which leads me to ask, where are the parents? Typical!! People blaming others for their downfall just to get a quick buck.
this just doesn't affect young teens but adults also. Also many parents don't allow their children to have social media until they are in their late teens but said teens still are affected by it. Technology such as social media is different from TV because these technologies involve participation and the app that is looking at you. Tv isn't watching you and with said technology there are stoppers. you know when an episode ends- with social media it is scrolling up and up and up like a slot machine. TV doesn't have that factor. I say this only to be mindful of parenting today and not judgemental. also with social media the algorithms are designed to addict users. Media companies need to be held accountable because of this reason, mental health and privacy issues. Don't get me started on how social media messes with our society. Please watch The social dilemma if you haven't seen it or read up on the addictiveness of social media. Even the creators of said app find it hard to regulate themselves when using these apps.
I have 20 something year old children, they don't use ANY social media. Early on they realised how dumb and ignorant social media followers behave. Proud Mom here❤️🙏
Transparency is essential for effective social media regulation In response to the information disorder on social media platforms, governments around the world are imposing transparency requirements in the hopes that they will improve content moderation practices. by Mark MacCarthy 1:01 [Brookings Institution]
I dont know i kinda like the freedom of adult social media sites, specifically twitter.. just figure out your crowd and make the rules accordingly. These young karens arent necessary, just another in between job to suck profit from a successful thing
Social media has become a cesspool of the worst of being a human.
U should see the colonel Ai from mgs2 segment
And yet here you on social media. The irony isn’t lost on me
It has only exposed it.
As an adult I have to say that my brain did not get swapped at one of my birthdays. These exploitative features work on adults, too. We have to realize that the product we are getting from tech companies is the maximization of screentime. There is nothing else with anywhere near the same financial pressure on it. No matter how wholesome content creators design their content, in the end, the point is to glue us to our smartphones, tablets, or computers. We need to decide as a society what we want to make of that product. I think we misunderstood it a lot so far. The same goes for dating apps. These are not apps to get us dates, they are apps to keep us interested in the process of browsing potential dates to show us ads.
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!!
As an adult, social media is terribly triggering. It's Iike junior high all over again. Adults get affected too.
My sons are grown now but I feel for young adults and teens and those adults triggered by abusive speech and judgmental attitudes.
If it gets to be too much, take as many breaks as you need to. Socialization, healthy socialization is important for people of all ages. But ... Everything in moderation. ❤️
They should they should blame their parents for not looking after their kids. What kind of parents let 12 years old aimlessly surf social media.
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.
Those tech companies didn't buy them their computers and phones. So why blame those companies for their issues and beg politicians to use force to solve their problems? Are their parents not responsible for anything?
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.
We used house phones no cell phones & I grew up to be a successful young lady I can openly say that these cell phones will & have destroyed our youth to the point where my kids grab their phones before they grab a toothbrush in the morning 😮 these are some young successful ladies & what you are doing is awesome
Ah that ol wall telephone-Miss weaving throughout the house with that long cord haha
I’m a millennial, but my parents didn’t let me get a phone until I was 16. I didn’t have a smart phone until I was 20 (tho I did have an iPod touch, but it wasn’t connected to data). It’s scary to see kids as young as 12 trying to emulate adults and adult behavior in such a toxic way. I think all this exposure to the world only adds to the sexualization of girls.
I never felt this whole comparing myself to others with social media. What I hated was being available alllll the time. And I still do. That’s why I don’t have Facebook or IG anymore.
They can compare themselves to the homeless and help them out
I agree with them, but I have mixed feelings. Using social media is not mandatory. It's best to learn at an early age to not always feel the need to join the bandwagon. That's where parents should step in, but the problem is that the parents suffer from FOMO, too.
I never got on Facebook when it was started, never got on Myspace.. I haven't logged into IG in two years and refuse TikTok or Snapchat, in the same way I refused FB.
Teach kids that it's okay to not want to do or to be just like everyone else, and that's a real start to changing this. Teach them that most ppl on social media are lying about their lives anyway, so that removes the glossiness and reduces the depression causing envy.
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.
As a Mother of a 14 yr old I have seen with my on eyes what social media has done to my child. She has severe depression high anxiety low self esteem and bulimia. All because she was comparing herself to others. She has been in treatment and has a very supportive family who loves her. We have to stop these tech companies who only care about profit not that our children are suffering.
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.
We don't need big government to replace parenting, we need parents to take back control of their children. Everything starts at home , it's easy to blame big tech. Instead of ourselves.
After I watched the documentaries The Social Dilemma, The Great Hack, and Childhood 2.0 , I realized the enormity of this issue. I applaud these young people.
Not gonna lie, it’s 100% user error.
The fact that you base your self-worth off of “likes” and “followers”?
That’s not the company‘s fault…
It’s your fault.
It could be blamed on your upbringing as well. Apparently no adult in your life cared enough to teach you not to base your self-worth on the opinion of others.
If you fall into the rabbit hole of thinking that’s what you need to have in your life to make you a worthwhile person?
That’s a weakness in THE USERS character.
Regarding social media all I can say is I am glad it wasn’t around when I was a teenager.
When I was 15 back in 1968-69 I was bullied/ostracized by a group of 5 boys who were led by a former good friend of mine whose parents went through a very acrimonious divorce that turned him into a very cynical and nasty bully. He turned on me because I think he was jealous of the fact that I lived in a secure and loving home with my biological parents and brother.
If social media had been around back then the harassment would probably have been much worse for me. I was able to escape it by transferring to a different high school in 11th grade which made a huge positive difference. My grades greatly improved and I made a new group of friends.
I do have a Facebook account but I am rarely on it. It seems like so many active FB users love to make their “look at me and my fabulous life” posts and it’s almost like they live their lives in the surreal online world.
@@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.
That's called censorship. To regulate social media you need to ban anyone under 18 from using their service. These teens are too naïve to see this.
It's great to see them trying to save the next generation and essentially society as a whole. The only thing people can do that actually impacts these companies ethics is voting individually with their attention, time, and money. The government won't save us from this.
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.
This person claimed that seeing her friends live happy lives made her more depressed and is harmful content. Never crossed her mind to be happy for them.
These are just jealous people crying about it. So they want to change these apps so jealous people don't get their little feelings hurt because they are jealous. pathetic!
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😎😎
Social media needs oversight and regulation. The lack of either has gotten us and our society to a really bad place.
It all needs to go away.
Maybe you, as a female, should start by being accountable?
Parents should take authority in the home 🏠 and give healthy choices to the children.
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.
The CEO of alphabet (which owns Google) has access to the nudes of millions of people. The average person doesn't believe or care about that.
If I said the same thing but it was ANY head of a government state, you would be outraged.
The amount of your life directly under the control of major corporations is a problem you are taught to never see.
I would love to see more done on a federal level for kids rights in school for bullying. Seems only the upper class have any say in the matter, because they are rich and can afford going to court in the first place.
Bad parenting is what leads to cell phone addiction.
TG the young are going to save our society; just as was done in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s…but not for a long time since. A certain apathy and ignorance set in and now there is an awakening. Hallelujah!
It was always a drug. What did we expect when we walk around seeing kids in phones in public addicted. Slumped over in parks. Standing around in hallways or stores transfixed.
China limits the phones. They will not lets kids get addicted. They have time linits
1st amendment. Government can not censor speech that is protected.
What the government can do is require social media companies to verify user identity using government documentation. IE drivers license or state id
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.
I still don't understand what these girls actually want to happen besides turning off autoplay. Why don't they just stay off social media that they don't like? Nobody is forcing them to join FB or IG or any of it.
they want everyone else in the world to be censored for them.
Or maybe you need to hold yourself or your parents should be responsible.
Don’t play the victim. There will always be a peddler out their (drugs, sex, social media) so we as parents need to remain engaged with our kids and vigilant in our own lives.
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.
Economic productivity has grown consistently in America for decades. On the other hand, wages haven't moved since the late 70's. As a result, parents have to work twice as long to make the same wages. When finished, they're much more likely to isolate, medicate or just go to bed. When combined with the development of social media today's kids have been placed at extreme risk of a wide variety of negative consequences. Imagine growing up in the home of an absentee parent or, worse, one defeated by today's professional demands. American employers have been cutting corners for decades at the expense of its workers. Initially this wasn't such a big deal. Not anymore. This is a dynamic that has compounded yearly, for decades. Parents are being placed in impossible situations and the results are terrible. This is not a moral failing of the parents. They're simply being squeezed to death. I can't help but wonder if these draconian economic practices are the root cause of our nation's problems, be they crime and drugs, greed and pettiness or fascism and hate. I offer no solutions, however, the situation is unlikely to self correct.
Here’s a thought, maybe we should get rid of social media altogether. It allows people to be cruel without consequences and wastes time.
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
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Losers calling to end the First Amendment. They can stay off social media and move to an Amish like compound/farming community if they want to.
Gen Z at its finest. Zero accountability
Regulating Social Media is like America trying to regulate Guns, it's never gonna happen.
I'm so glad I grew up without internet, gaming consoles and smartphones. We actually talked to our friends face to face and went outside to play and ride bikes, play sports. Our friends were actually real friends and didn't have to worry about how many likes we got or what a person that you don't know or ever met talked crap about you from across the country or even the globe but can't say it to your face. Online bullies can't say something bad to someone's face only online and most have a fake profile.
They should hold themselves accountable. They chose to get involved no matter how you look at it. No social media platform forced them . Example ...I drink sometimes, so does Billy Bob over there. Billy gets in his car and plows over 2 people ...they are trying to tell us that it was the alcohols fault, not Billy's; he was just innocently drinking and should just sue whoever manufactured the alcohol.
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
This is moving in the right direction....get rid of only fans that's very damaging to young women and love and relationships push it
Kids shouldn't use social media!
We shouldn't live in a world that's censored because kids are using apps that they shouldn't use!!
Very smart and insightful young ladies … more power to them …
Parents HAVE to learn the POWER of the WORD -
NO ON THEIR CHILDREN from a VERY EARLY AGE.
Once upon a time, we used to say, "I'll call you when i get home."
Social media is NOT going to CHANGE. The cat has been let out of the bag. BIG MONEY & TECH = CONTROL.
It's the parent's fault for not taking charge off their kids activities
Pretty simple. If you don't like it don't use it.
Kids are growing up too fast..worrying about things they shouldnt be worrying about , instead of having fun..You only get to have one childhood. I have yet to see kids playing outside together or going to the mall with friends, which was one of my highlights growing up. We'd shop at Sids, and buy our Levi's or corduroys, Carpenter pants were big back then in the 70s....and then go to woolworth and have lunch, or buy a ice cream cone at Friendly's. We couldn't get enough fresh air. We walked, rode our bikes, and had fun. Who wanted to sit home..that was called punishment in my day. So sad..I wouldn't want to be growing up at this time.
72 Baby here and we grew up when TV went off at 12 PM, once you saw that flag you knew no more TV for the night. And as far as socialization, we loved being outside walking to where we needed to go and even though we had a house phone my parents shut that off at a certain time.Ijs
Me too. 72. Walked everywhere
Proud of these young women leading this necessary focus to decrease the mental and emotional impact on our youth!
Social media should be regulated like gambling used to be.
High school football is also horrible for teens and their health. Should we make high school football touch and not tackle by default? Do high schools need to be held accountable and stop exploiting student demand for such a harmful sport? I don't think so. People are increasingly opting out of football for all these reasons. The same can be true for social media.
How about parents regulate their kids lives. Don’t have offspring of you can’t raise them properly.
You can't fight City Hall, and you can't fight social media.
Their execution felt incredibly rehearsed, especially the way the second women smiled while talking. Just sounds like some parent’s idea of extra curriculars to beef up their young resumes. However Nobel their cause is, I do wish them good luck.
I completely disagree with them. It’s freedom of speech. Honestly if social media makes you feel bad then don’t use it.
The current algorithms aren't facilitating freedom of speech or human measure whatsover.
Props to the youth! Take charge of the changes that need to be made now. Cuz too many oldheads have stopped doing anything of real change.
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.
Um. You don't have to go on social media
Oh yeah let the government control what we see and hear. Like that’s never failed before
Meet the girls that didn't get enough likes on their posts
Wow these two young ladies are more articulate and self aware than most people I know in real life and see on the news. Incredible work !
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.
Dont get your children smart phones till they are 17 or 18. Let them first experience the real world first.
Bravo for these two young ladies for stepping up, to open up the platform that needs to talked about.Keep up the good work. We'll spoken and thought out.
they are doing this for college. what a joke. their lives must suck
I know I hate "victims" even more who act all empowered and like "I'm a strong victim of abuse" blah blah blah
Stopping social media bullying is not going to stop bullying altogether, and it does not stop the underlying cause of why teenaged these days are fixed on to their phones. When you have house holds where you need a dual income to survive, parents become to busy to engage with their children. That in turn makes kids want to get validation and belonging through other means
It’s wild how fast it’s changed, I was a freshman when the iPhone came out, my senior year the iPhone 4 came out. I remember jail breaking my iPod touch so it could use as a phone. What other revolution has advanced at this rate.
Social media absolutely destroys mental health. What I find is that the people who post most about how they're "living their dream", the more it's an absolute lie.
These two girls are clowns., blaming social media for “you” going on social media willingly.. then u think u could sue… y u think your parents ain’t want u on it smh
U caused your own depression
I'm sorry but Big Tech doesn't have to care what you are choosing to do. No one forces anyone to be online. How do you regulate peer pressure on social media?
We are responsible for ourselves.
It needs to happen. These companies getting rich from our children’s mental health. It’s disgusting that there is nothing really governing these sites. These tech companies get proper regulations on these sites.
I'm not sure the problem is regulating social media, it's regulating "NEWS". Any social media platform that is publishing content that is considered news should abide by some standard to ensure that information has been verified before it is available there.
Could do what south Korea does and force the companies to register all users and make sure the people are real and are held accountable for all the rancid crap that they/we do. They have some sort of social security number registration thing.
I fail to understand how this has anything to do with social media. It seems clear that the problem was that their parents were handing them money and technology they were not ready for and the parents failed to monitor their children or even pay attention enough to their lives to recognize when they were developing significant social-emotional disorders. This is a parental failure, not a social media failure.
I sure do miss real, investigative, engaging journalism. Thank you 60 minutes for carrying on the tradition of so.
I stay from Social Media and it also affects Adults Mentally !!!
I would love to see America's youth protest the harm generated by online media with the same energy and vigor and persistence that my generation - the baby boomers - put forth to push for women's rights!
I'm really glad RUclips no longer shows the number of dislikes on a video. I think that was a very unhealthy thing, and I think those numbers were manipulated by third parties to influence opinions and attitudes of US citizens -- in order to breed extremism and conflict. When the number of dislikes was massively larger than the number of likes on a serious news video about the pandemic, for example, it created the sense that the world (or at least the RUclips audience) was dominated by conspiracy theorists who thought the pandemic was some kind of false flag or hoax. It left me feeling anxious and depressed, and made me turn away for a time (perhaps the risk of users "turning away" is why RUclips changed it). They say that the two main ways to change behavior in a democratic, capitalist society are "voice" (i.e., speak up about one's concerns) and "exit" (i.e., stop using the particular platform or service).
And the parents? Where the accountability should also be pointed directly at them.
The current online algorithm is inherently harmful. It cannot be not so. Because what gets promoted most will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be what is MOST alarming, upsetting, horrifying, argumentative, insulting, frightening, etc. , etc. , etc. Fix the d___ thing!
It's a societal problem, not a problem with social media itself. It cannot be regulated, it wouldn't solve anything. The only "solution" is to stop using the apps and services one would deem harmful.
Social media can have a negative impact on any age, not just teens
There's nothing new about this... this is a never-ending controversy. 50 years ago, today... probably been going on for far longer.
I sometimes long for a day like I saw as a child when everything just shut down at midnight!! What's wrong with that? God bless our children. and these young ladies.
I agree - this has gone unchecked too long!
Here's an idea, how about you never create a social media account. Boom, case closed.
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.
How about you teach your kids what my mother taught me since I was Lil sticks and stones might break my bones but words will never hurt me. Also kids are being raised to be babies like if you can't handle it don't get on. Also parents need to Also be held accountable to if you let your kids be on those platforms then don't say anything when things happen. I'm so over when people that can't handle the internet yet be the first ones to be on it and if your weak just STOP. THATS IT! What is suing going to do???? Give you money lmfao I'm can't deal
This week would be a mighty fine time to do an update on the 2010 Viktor Bout story ... right?
I think people just need to stop being so sensitive and vulnerable to mental health. And the parents should have known better. But regulation is cool to
Its almost as if people forgot how to delete it and get off their phone
You mean discipline and accountability? 😂
@@habibi750 more like common sense lol
I support these teens.
Our entire country (me included) is focused on meaningless crap aka social media while no one is minding the store (our infrastructure, substations, etc.)
I don't understand this. If social media contributed to their decline in mental health, then stop using it. Oh yeah, they're just kids. What do they know? Which leads me to ask, where are the parents? Typical!! People blaming others for their downfall just to get a quick buck.
this just doesn't affect young teens but adults also. Also many parents don't allow their children to have social media until they are in their late teens but said teens still are affected by it. Technology such as social media is different from TV because these technologies involve participation and the app that is looking at you. Tv isn't watching you and with said technology there are stoppers. you know when an episode ends- with social media it is scrolling up and up and up like a slot machine. TV doesn't have that factor. I say this only to be mindful of parenting today and not judgemental. also with social media the algorithms are designed to addict users. Media companies need to be held accountable because of this reason, mental health and privacy issues. Don't get me started on how social media messes with our society. Please watch The social dilemma if you haven't seen it or read up on the addictiveness of social media. Even the creators of said app find it hard to regulate themselves when using these apps.
be better parents. simple. its not social media.
I have 20 something year old children, they don't use ANY social media. Early on they realised how dumb and ignorant social media followers behave. Proud Mom here❤️🙏
Discord is the worst too
Transparency is essential for effective social media regulation
In response to the information disorder on social media platforms, governments around the world are imposing transparency requirements in the hopes that they will improve content moderation practices. by Mark MacCarthy 1:01 [Brookings Institution]
Wonderful and thoughtful campaigners. They have my full support.
When they interviewed wally adeyemo in the hallway it looked like there was cardboard on the floor. What are they remodeling?????
When I disagree with anything , I simply stop engaging with it. So simple and easy!
Social Media must be regulated
Good....It's about time.
“Leveraging their experiences.”
What does that mean exactly? 🤷🏻♂️
I dont know i kinda like the freedom of adult social media sites, specifically twitter.. just figure out your crowd and make the rules accordingly. These young karens arent necessary, just another in between job to suck profit from a successful thing
It is not the company's fault for your parent not doing their job. Log off! Delete the app! Grow up dear.