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Do Generations Exist? with Jean Twenge

Factually! with Adam Conover

CHAPTER

The Impact of Social Media on Children and Teens

I think that the most straightforward and potentially impactful solutions are around children and teens comes to social media, especially younger teens and kids. So what I and a lot of other people are starting to say is that we should raise the minimum age for social media to 16 and actually verify age. And you don't need a parent's permission to sign up for social media and you can just lie about your age. It's a pretty good guess that those algorithms are going to have a bigger impact on children and teens who don't have as much self control.

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