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Sadly, it’s a societal issue as we are told to be X or Y. Boys wear blue and hang with the fellas. Girls wear pink and have tea with the ladies. Go to college, get a job, get married, have kids, die.
No one is ever like climb Everest, surf in Indonesia, backpack Europe, get lost in the wilderness.
I understand the psychology of marketing and what these companies do to exploit that.
At the end of the day if it’s about the kids. The parents should be educated at this point.
When I was a “tween” I was building CGI blogs and myspacing before moving from Perl to PHP; in high school you needed a college email address to sign up for Facebook so that didn’t come for until after I graduated high school in 2004.
Sure things have changed but I find if I pause and reflect daily and stay in the moment I don’t ever doom scroll or need social media.
Even now this comment is only being written bc I’m taking a poo.