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I watched this and found it interesting that a bunch of people associated with the establishment of various social networking companies turned around and left them due to ethical questions they had, brought up, and were ignored. This is on Nexflix and worth the watch, but I kept coming back to everything I try to understand in why young humans do what they do and again it is a parenting issue.
As bad as social networking is, out children only gain access to it when parents turn a blind eye. Sure, there are a variety of legit reasons why parents are not paying attention to and limiting their child's interaction with social network but then again ... once again ... I have to remind myself that as humans we do not license adults to having children, let alone monitor them enough on how they are raising them.
Even intelligent parents do little to monitor their child's mental health in this aspect, but then I suppose one could also say this social networking as a bad element is no difference than other constructs such as alcohol, drugs, etc.
But the data since 2010 on the impact to those not yet adults was shocking, but not surprising. What was surprising were the lack of parental intervention.
As bad as social networking is, out children only gain access to it when parents turn a blind eye. Sure, there are a variety of legit reasons why parents are not paying attention to and limiting their child's interaction with social network but then again ... once again ... I have to remind myself that as humans we do not license adults to having children, let alone monitor them enough on how they are raising them.
Even intelligent parents do little to monitor their child's mental health in this aspect, but then I suppose one could also say this social networking as a bad element is no difference than other constructs such as alcohol, drugs, etc.
But the data since 2010 on the impact to those not yet adults was shocking, but not surprising. What was surprising were the lack of parental intervention.