[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

I think it can have positives and negatives (for teens anyway) to be fair. My daughter is quite socially outgoing but she now has a very close friend who she met at high school, sat with in a couple of classes, who was less confident by nature but basically started messaging my daughter on Snapchat to say "I really like you and you're really funny and awesome, I'm determined for us to be besties pls" (not in so many words ) and 2-3 years later they're a very close and quite large friend group that was created by their two groups of friends "merging" through them. I honestly doubt she would EVER have been able to just come out with that face-to-face and I'd be surprised if they're not going to be "life long old friends" at this point.

I try to see the positives in it really. I am generally quite nihilistic about social media/online stuff in terms of human interaction. I do think it's, overall, a disaster for social psychology... but we get the world we're given sometimes .

Yeah, can't argue with any of that I guess.

BIB : Yeah me too, I think about it a lot, people (not just children) are getting so addicted to the online world and fakeness as well, it feels like we're sleep walking into a dystopian sci fi film. I know I'm guilty of spending too much time online too