How Teens See Social Media
Originally posted to The Odyssey Online I was sitting in the car with my mom and driving to a softball tournament when she told me to put my phone away and stop playing games. I had been texting my best friend and as I told her this, I realized something. When parents yell at their kids for being on their phones all the time, most of those times kids are talking to their friends on some social media platform, and it’s like this because we don’t have time or ways to see our friends as often. As parents get more protective, more social media platforms flourish because its a way for kids to let their friends into their lives whether it be with six second videos or a photo that they took on vacation. As kids get ore separated, since they’re not with their friends, they become more addicted to social media because its a way for them to interact with their friends. While parents think the problem is the social media, the problem is mostly the parents not allowing the...