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How to Reduce the Sexual Solicitation of Teens on Instagram (afterbabel.com)
16 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Minors simply shouldn't be on social media. Like casinos, bars, and nightclubs it's a social space that needs a lot of self-control and executive function to engage with safely. Most kids won't have that.


It was safe for us nerds in the 1980s. It is not so safe in 2024 if you're one of the 20% of guys who get 80% of the attention from girls:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-sextortion-teen-suic... (archive: https://archive.ph/VTw6O)


this, mobile phones and tablets should be like smoking, banned under the age of 16 outside of educational purposes at school


> Arturo’s bombshell finding was that 13% of teen users of Instagram between the ages of 13-15 said that they themselves had received unwanted sexual advances…. In the past week!

Yikes! What the fuck are we doing?




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