Studies have shown the adverse effects of too much screen time on social media.President Biden has taken a swing at social media companies for negatively influencing young people.Republican Senator Josh Hawley followed by introducing a bill to block children under 16 years old from social media.And now the San Mateo County Office of Education filing a lawsuit in Federal Court because of the impact the school district is seeing on their students.
"These social media platforms can be used to harm each other or to create havoc or to cause disrupting or to shame students for various identities or the way they look or sound," San Mateo County Superintendent Nancy Magee said.& McCarthy law firm said. "Their brains are developing and what happens to them while they're children carries through for their whole life.
That's not to mention the damage to property created by viral challenges which are executed by students. Social media companies say they have put in place protections for young people and screen time reminders on their devices.The strategy now is to go after "big tech" the way "big tobacco" was targeted."I'm not sure we'll convince young people not to use social media or fully educate them on the harm that can come from social media that why as parents, as a community, as schools we also need to be taking steps," Magee said.
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