Meta sued by 42 attorneys general for addictive features targeting kids

Im for consumer protection but what is next? Taylor Swift addicting teens to her music lawsuit. Call of Duty addicting kids to gaming lawsuit. JK Rowling addicting people to her book lawsuits. UF addicting people to football lawsuits?

 

UF has not been guilty of addicting anyone to football since 2009.

I agree with you though. These lawsuits typically bring precedent and future laws and regulations that impact everyone, not just the guilty parties. That said, I can’t say that I am supporting meta( or any of the others) in any way.

 

Damn, another perfect response from you. You and I are close to being beer buddies. Keep it up.

 

save the time and money and just sue the guilty parties: mom and dad! This is just another case of idiots trying to pass the buck on parenting responsibilities. This is like blaming McDonalds for your kid being fat.

 

Maybe the gators were sued in 2009? At least that would explain why the team can't seem to get their stuff together

 

Can't some or most of those features in Facebook and Instagram be blocked by the parents of these teens?

Maybe these items should be sold with locks for parents only to unblock?

Lol... the kids know more about computers than their parents do... so that won't work.

 

Lots of bad stuff done in the name of "protecting children" started with drag shows, then to online porn, no doubt it will be online censorship next like this.

Also its kinda funny this is aimed at Facebook, which is for old people, they should be suing on behalf of boomers. Guess they cant touch Tik Tok since its Chinese, so we get this.

 

My kids don’t do Facebook. They do do instagram which is also owned be meta I think. Lol

 

Is there evidence that Taylor Swift or Harry Poter is really bad for kids? There seems to be growing evidence that social media is indeed very bad for kids. To me the questions are: is there enough evidence that FB is bad for kids, is FB aware of it, and did they ignore it and actively targeted kids. I know it’s easy to blame the parents. But a lot of grown ups addicted to social media too. These companies know exactly what buttons to push.

 

WRT kids, what are studies finding is dangerous? If it’s stuff like body image, wasting too much time, targeted ads… I mean, have you seen tween/kids TV shows, where everyone is popular and looks like a movie star, is meant to suck kids in, and targets them with fashion and pimple cream ads!

 

Children are becoming too good at choreography and synchronized dancing, it must be stopped

 

While they're at it, sue pharmaceutical companies for overwhelming viewers with their ridiculous ads. We had some friends from Germany visit us recently, and they were floored by such ads. They're almost non-existent on TV there. I wonder if anyone has calculated how many hundreds of millions are spent annually persuading viewers - apparently successfully - to ask our doctor to prescribe that crap.

 

Don't even have to do that, just revoke their patents

 

It isn't that simple. You explain to me how to keep my kids off of social media.

No phone? They will use their friends phone.

No computer? Impossible in todays school age.

I currently have 3 teenagers. Monitoring their online activities is like trying to choose which grain of aand on Siesta Key is most important.

We do a lot of screening and monitoring.
But there is still a lot of sand on the beach.

 

This is the issue. Instagram has no parental controls. (Facebook isnt a teen thing).

These companies dont want me controlling what my three teens see.

Greed tends to do that.

 

Meta is also instagram which is how my kids text and communicate. Insta is huge for teens.

 

Social media is terrible for kids no doubt. But I don’t think this is the answer.