We kinda do that blaming every new media for particular teens suicide.

Some teens are suicidal. They always have been. When you are a teen your brain undergoes traumatic transformation. Not everyone gets to the other side safely. Same as with many other transformations and diseases. Yet every time new medium is found adjacent to some particular suicide we repeat the same tired line that creator of this medium should be to blame and should be punished and banned.

And we are doing that while happily ignoring how existence of things like Facebook or Instagram provably degraded mental health and raised suicidality of entire generations of teenagers. However they mostly get a pass because we can't point a finger convincingly enough for any specific case and say it was anything more than just interacting with peers.

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AlecSchueler 5 days ago | parent [-]

Except loads of us are talking about the dangers of social media and have been for the past ten years only to receive exactly the same hand waving and sarcastic responses as you see in this thread. Now the ultimate gaslighting of "the discussion didn't even happen."

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scotty79 5 days ago | parent [-]

Was Facebook sued for teen suicide? Did it lose or at least settled?

Facebook is not the same as ai chat. Facebook influence on mental health is negative and visible in research. The jury is still out on AI but it might as well turn out it has huge net positive effect on well being.

	▲	AlecSchueler 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Net negative or net positive doesn't really matter. If there are aspects of it that are causing children to kill themselves then we should be able to discuss that without people rolling their eyes and saying "yeah yeah think of the children." We can have the benefits while also trying to limit the harms.