Staying home on screens may protect children from physical harms, but leaves them vulnerable to psychological ones.
Meta Founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis hearing in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 31.In January, I had the odd experience of nodding along with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who can usually be relied on to be wrong, as he berated supervillain Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, about the effect its products have on kids. “You have blood on your hands,” Graham said.
“And I’ve seen that for myself,” she said, describing helping the family of a young girl find a scarce psychiatric bed during the pandemic. “She talked to me a lot about social media.” Female adolescence was nightmarish enough before smartphones, but apps like Instagram and TikTok have put popularity contests and unrealistic beauty standards into hyperdrive. The studies Haidt cites — as well as the ones he debunks — should put to bed the notion that concern over kids and phones is just a modern moral panic akin to previous generations’ hand-wringing over radio, comic books and television.But I suspect that many readers won’t need convincing.
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