In my opinion, the basic idea of social media isn't necessarily bad, it's the fact that it is ad supported, which incentivizes completely controlling the attention of users, which is the issue.

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cyanydeez 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The problem is, the borders upon which you want a child operating in social media are pretty fuzzy. Do you want them working with classmates? sure. Other peers in same school grade? of course; older peers? ...sure; older peers in other districts...maybe?

Then there's all the spoofing and the "age gate" software that inevitably needs to be done to do this.

	▲	techblueberry 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The things is, it’s not the people that bother me. If it was IRC or MySpace I’d be mostly fine, even if they were engaging with questionable people or content, I think partially because the fidelity and partially because those experiences were still largely pulled by the child. It’s the non-stop algorithmic content. This is sort of - it’s not really the “social media” that’s the problem it’s billion dollar companies getting to push content direct.