Lumelore (She/her)

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I claim it is a corporate problem because of things such as Meta detecting when a teen girl deleted a selfie and then showing her beauty ads.

Also these kids are going to get older, go on social media, and then have the same problems. But because they are older it seems like people don’t care about them anymore.

Also social media is really useful for minorities, such as queer people, to find community and support which is especially important if they happen to have bad parents or live in an unsupportive area.

I very well might have killed myself when I was a teen if it wasn’t for support I received from people online. Social media isn’t the problem. It’s the predation by the execs who want to squeeze out every penny they can that is. A youth ban doesn’t fix anything. What we actually need is regulation on the companies (not the users) and easier access to mental health resources.

When I was in kindergarten they showed us a cartoon with anthropomorphic teeth to try to encourage dental hygiene and those teeth scared me so much that I refused to brush my teeth for years and I ended up getting gum disease because of it.