Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law

• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What in god’s green earth about limitting social media usage on a daily time-us basis implies anything about targetting marginalized groups? Things that are detrimental to mental health, like excessive social media consumption, aren’t magically less-so for marginalized groups.

  If anything, such media is a distraction and pacifier of sorts.

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  • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are people who literally cannot leave the house and their community is literally on social media. Are you saying their mental health would not decline if they were unable to reach their community due to some inane law like this?

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    • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Get this straight: Private Messaging and e-mail are not Social Media in the context of this law, and neither are phone calls or texts. Give me an hour, and I can download enough pages of whatever I like to keep me busy for a week.

      Seeking validation from strangers in real-time is bad for your mental health. Yes, even for the home-bound. That said, your argument would probably win-out in court, so there would have to be exceptions. “Adult” is still too broad of an exception on its own IMHO.

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      • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, I understand that. But not everybody can talk all the time like that, some people can only really have enough energy for social media, not talking one-to-one, I know a few.

        Woah, I’m not talking about “seeking validation from strangers”. I’m talking about building actual community online, and that being all some people have due to either homeboundness, or other reasons where online is the only community they can know, I’m saying such a law would genuinely put those people in jeopardy, no matter what age they are.

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