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Laws, taskforces, and PSAs are all artifacts that represent an ambivalent sort of concretization of the fears that swarm around children's online sociality.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Social media platforms are therefore the most efficient conformity engines ever invented. They can shape an adolescent’s mental models of acceptable behavior in a matter of hours, whereas parents can struggle unsuccessfully for years to get their children to sit up straight or stop whining.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Then there’s the influence of technology on trust in institutions. Social media and the internet in general put individualism on steroids: People can do their own research because there are more places to find information, correct or not.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
Clearly, physical safety is obviously of utmost importance to today’s youth, but so is a broader sense of mental and emotional wellbeing. Young people don’t just want to feel safe, but secure and calm too. At the moment, unfortunately, this simply isn’t the case.
Eloise Hendy • Home is where the heart is, according to young people
On the internet, everyone is the same age, which is no particular age. This is a major reason why a phone-based adolescence is badly mismatched with the needs of adolescents.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Kids today can tell you what sites are hot, what sites are passé and how different sites operate as different kinds of collectives. That’s because their evaluations are based on how their personal sense of identity and agency matches with the various collectives that constitute different spaces.