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The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link) (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Watching what social media has done to our culture over the last 20 years has made me very glad I grew up without, and even more glad that I'm constitutionally able to delete my FB, Twitter and Reddit accounts and never touched TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I was a horribly depressed youth for a variety of reasons. I can't imagine how I'd have turned out if social media had existed when I was growing up.