Taylor Lorenz: If ur a teenager and social media has HELPED you or been a net positive in your life, especially if ur LGBTQ or member of a marginalized identity, please reach out I’d love to talk to u for a project! DM me your best contact number or email me on Taylor.lorenz at washpost dot com

If ur a teenager and social media has HELPED you or been a net positive in your life, especially if ur LGBTQ or member of a marginalized identity, please reach out I’d love to talk to u for a project! DM me your best contact number or email me on Taylor.lorenz at washpost dot com

if u r a meth addict and meth has HELPED you or been a net positive in your life

Good thing social media is not like drugs!

true, drugs aren't free

drugs are way cooler

I'm no a teen anymore, but the internet sasaved my life

You don't think that the Jon Haidt research is compelling? There may be some net positive for some LGBTQ+ kids, but it's been horrific overall.

There’s no research! Every person who actually does research in this area has said his entire argument is total BS. There have been a lot of great debunkings but this is my fave www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teenswww.theatlantic.com It may only make things worse.

Teens commit suicide over social media harassment, but what a few dead kids, am I right? "Social media use by minors has significantly increased and has been linked to depression and suicidality." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

The role of online social networking on deliberate self-harm and suicidality in adolescents: A systematized review of literaturewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Social media use by minors has significantly increased and has been linked to depression and suicidality. Simultaneously, age-adjusted suicide rates have steadily increased over the past decade in the...

You can keep this up but you won't get less wrong

No. Jon Haidt's research is not compelling. It's cherry picked and presented in a misleading fashion, and has been debunked over and over again by actual experts in the field. www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling...

The Coddling of the American Parentwww.thedailybeast.com Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.

Exactly. We need to protect kid's access to information. The people taking it away aren't even hiding their evil intent

He's a hack

There's really not a lot of value to listening to people who think that bigotry is some kind of "both sides are wrong" issue

"heterodox thinker", or, "what if transphobes have a point"

lol @ Jon Haidt research

the jon haidt research is absolute nonsense

It is like saying: Big Bird calculus

It’s an insult to the scientific method to call what Haidt has written ‘research’

Have you watched the doc "Black Twitter" or other examples of how social media has been used for good? I agree there are negative psychological effects for some people but it brings together once-isolated communities. Granted, in a few cases, those are Nazis. But most people are not Nazis.

I'm going to email you on behalf of my son. His story is compelling but he wants to be safe so I just have a few questions about the process.

Hey Taylor do you wanna reach out to some of these kids? I have contact info for a few hundred. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Thousands of Young People Told Us Why the Kids Online Safety Act Willwww.eff.org With KOSA passed, the information i can access as a minor will be limited and censored, under the guise of "protecting me", which is the responsibility of my parents, NOT the government. I have

Cigarettes have improved my life how dare they have warning labels

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