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Social media in its current form harms people of all ages; the line is drawn at childhood only because adults are allowed to choose things that are bad for them.

Drawn from what Jon Haidt said

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Addiction Compulsive use that continues through the harm it causes — and the argument about whether it is a disease, a choice, or a response to pain.

social media Feeds and the platforms that rank them: what an algorithm decides is important, and what curating your own sources costs.

What Jon Haidt actually said

  1. Jon Haidt Social psychologist at NYU Stern
    Like any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.

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