The numbers for boys are lower but still alarming. A majority of teenage girls, 57%, now report experiencing persistent sadness or hopelessness, up from 36% in 2011, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures recently cited by the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. And there is increasing evidence now of a causal relationship between social media use and mental illness. The law regulates all sorts of products and services that can be dangerous to children. Texas lawmakers rightly recognize the need to shift the burden back onto highly profitable companies that have engineered their products in ways that make kids particularly susceptible to constant and often unhealthy use.
But the idea that parents should bear the entire responsibility is unfair and unrealistic given the ubiquity of smartphones among the young and the ease with which protective tools are overcome. Yes, parents should play the strongest role in policing children’s online experience. We’ve developed more than 30 tools to support families, including parental supervision tools that allow teens and parents to navigate social media safely together and tools to help ensure teens have age-appropriate experiences online,” Antigone Davis, Meta’s global head of safety, told us in a statement. That’s why we’ve built safety and privacy directly into teen experiences. “We want young people to have safe, positive experiences online. But it’s still up to parents to get between the product and their children. Instagram, owned by Meta, does offer a detailed and informative 68-page parental guide, and the company has paid more than lip service to online safety. Reddit’s mature-content warning features two buttons with a choice “Yes, I’m over 18″ or “Go to Home.” TikTok offers a very brief, unhelpful guardian’s guide which places the privacy burden on parents. Understanding someone’s age online is a complex, industry-wide challenge.” Instagram acknowledges that “We know young people can misrepresent their date of birth. Of course, many younger than 13 set up accounts regardless of the age restriction. Other sites don’t even bother with that sort of limitation. Instagram and TikTok both have policies that permit anyone 13 or over to open an account. The protections companies provide now are inadequate.
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