Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access

Re:Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access by prawn on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:42PM (#35310197)

Is anonymity the key issue for your example of Instagram and teen girls? I'd guess that a lot of the pressures come from their peers and professional users who are quite openly using their own identity.

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Re:Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday March 26, 2023 @02:14AM (#35311583)

Cyberstalkers use phony IDs. Consider the case of the mother who harassed her own daughter last year.

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Re:Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access by prawn on Sunday March 26, 2023 @07:02PM (#35320646)

I would suggest that those cases are a minor issue and the major negative pressure comes from general interaction with peers (whose names they know) or comparing themselves and their lives to professional social media users (almost always openly using their name).

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