Comment by kayodelycaon

Comment by kayodelycaon 4 days ago

I went to a school with over 1,200 students and still had no friends. Kids can be extremely cruel to their neurodivergent peers. I wasn’t able to learn social skills until university .

Things would have been a lot different if I had access to the internet.

don_neufeld 4 days ago

I’m sorry to hear that happened to you.

Unfortunately, the data about mental health outcomes of teens who consume social media is not positive, so I’m not sure things would have been better.

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hammock 4 days ago

Xanga allowed kids to connect and be social that otherwise weren’t able to in high school. But do we want to raise a society of Xanga kids, or do we want to solve the root problems why they couldn’t be social in the first place?

(Or am I asking the same exact question two different ways, a distinction without a difference?)

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