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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by kayodelycaon on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:25AM (#42711080)
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.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by don_neufeld on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:02AM (#42711574)
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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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by hammock on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:09AM (#42711667)
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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