Comment on The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah, give kids easy to use pocket computers to access social media curated by algorithms designed to increase anxiety/engagement and “games” that are single-player gambling simulations, all of which harvests their data just to better learn how to manipulate them, and wonder why kids feel anxious, isolated, or depressed.

This hurts the over-25s too, just to lesser degrees because their brains are fully developed.

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