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Life as a teen without social media isn't easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline (apnews.com)
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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 5 months ago

I grew up with access to social media. I got an Android 4.1 tablet when I was 8. Actually, I wish my parents had less strong opinions on it.

That's because they went the other way around.
My dad wanted me to have a Facebook account, which I created, and then was upset at me when I deleted it when I was 12 because of the dumb hateful "jokes" floating around there.
Then later he again urged me to at least use Messenger, as if he didn't have a plan with unlimited SMS and phone calls...

I am an adult now, but not much has changed. It only went from Facebook to TikTok.