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minus-square FIash Mob #5678 ( @FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink9•4 months agoWatching what social media has done to our culture over the last 20 years has made me very glad I grew up without, and even more glad that I’m constitutionally able to delete my FB, Twitter and Reddit accounts and never touched TikTok.
minus-square some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) linkfedilink5•4 months agoI was a horribly depressed youth for a variety of reasons. I can’t imagine how I’d have turned out if social media had existed when I was growing up.
Watching what social media has done to our culture over the last 20 years has made me very glad I grew up without, and even more glad that I’m constitutionally able to delete my FB, Twitter and Reddit accounts and never touched TikTok.
I was a horribly depressed youth for a variety of reasons. I can’t imagine how I’d have turned out if social media had existed when I was growing up.