Never tell other people how to parent their children.

Fuck off, parents rights bullshit is at the expense of the children. That’s how you end up with traumatized queer children and kids with drug and alcohol problems. My friends mom buying him a six pack of beer every day when he was a teenager is absolutely responsible for his alcoholism. She would have been charged with child endangerment crimes if she had been reported at the time but I didn’t know him as well back then nor how bad it was.

Social media affects the brain in the way that movies and TV do not. Video games are similar but not as bad. The same brain chemicals that drugs and alcohol stimulate are the same ones stimulated by social media and video games. Like anything else moderation is fine. Doom scrolling all day and/or playing video games all day everyday is not healthy. Social media is especially manipulative and there’s a profit motive to keep people outraged and hooked.

I feel like I’m arguing with a teenager right now who doesn’t even know what life was like before social media and can’t comprehend it’s affect on society. For the worse. For everyone. At least us millennials and older had a fair shot at proper brain development before social media took over - I graduated HS the year Facebook opened its site to the general public instead of just Ivy League schools.