Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media

Jonathan Haidt is right when he talks about the sudden switch from play-based to phone-based childhoods and how it destroyed mental health—particularly for young girls. Our childhoods weren’t spent toying with risk and danger, teaching ourselves we could cope with it, learning that it’s baked into life. We had bans on play fighting. Health and safe... See more

If you ban technologies you’re not able to figure out how to steer them for our benefit. Social Media, is still in its infancy. We haven’t yet figured out how to use it properly