Please don't try to derail the discussion. I'm clearly responding to:

>I'm confident kids before Facebook did not somehow have a "lack of freedom".

If you have an argument to make then do so.

I'm responding to:

> Of course they did? What do you think school is? Just because it's useful to society doesn't mean it isn't also a reduction in freedom.

where you compare the loss of freedom from school to the loss of freedom from Facebook