Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns
A lot of comments in this thread remind of cigarette companies dismissing health concerns with tobacco.<p>In my circle of friends and family I&#x27;ve seen the majority of them go from being people you could talk to and spend time with to people that just stare at their phones constantly, I&#x27;ve heard others say the same about their circles. Parents let Youtube raise their kids because they don&#x27;t want to get their eyes off the screen themselves. You could be on a luxury vacation on a yacht in the Mediterranean but they never get off their damn phones. There&#x27;s no way that&#x27;s healthy.<p>That&#x27;s not even getting into how social media shapes your mind at a young age. I have two teachers in the family and they both say that kids have become borderline retarded since around 2010.<p>The multi billion dollar attention economy wants to dodge responsibility by holding an unrealistic standard of evidence for their externalities but use your common sense. Humanity has never had anything that constantly demands your attention, are we just supposed to pretend it will have no effect on our mental health?