most of the time, it is okay. most of the time im grateful for the internet and social media and cell phones and and and.Ā
but sometimes, you see a little girl doing her makeup for twelve thousand instagram followers. sheās nine. sometimes you see a man breaking up with his girlfriend for youtube likes. sometimes you are standing in a room and are in the background of fifty snapchat stories but in nobodyās actual lives.Ā
itās mostly okay. but so many of us grew up in a time where they basically ignored the internet while teaching us cursive in school. digital literacy wasĀ ādonāt look at wikipediaā. none of us knew what the next generation was being set up to. we taught ourselves our own rules. many of us, it didnāt come soon.
itās mostly okay. but the other day, i asked my freshman students: if you could, would you go back in time and take the internet away from yourself in middle school? if so, when do you think is the right time to be exposed to social media?
over and over: yes. yes. yes. iād go back and never look up those skinny tips. iād never spend so many weekends in the dark in communities that encouraged me to self-harm. iād never lose my brother to radicals. iād never, iād never, iād never again.
itās mostly okay. iām posting this on social media. but sometimes, you know. i wonder what exactly weāre doing.
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