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Meme culture turns its fire on social media's grip on teenagers
Original: # meme # like # society # youth # teenager # socialmedia # likes # attention # internet # online # smartphone # sleep #
A widely shared meme critique is circulating online targeting how social media and smartphones shape young people's attention, sleep, mental health and self-worth through likes and tracking. It frames the pursuit of online validation as a wider societal problem, tying big tech platforms to surveillance and behavioural manipulation.
Why now: Concerns about social media's effect on teenage mental health and screen addiction are a recurring public debate.
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- # meme # like # society # youth # teenager # socialmedia # likes # attention # internet # online # smartphone # sleep # health # mental # bigtech # bigbrother # tracking # destiny · scriptkiddie@anonsys.net · 5
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