i've become pretty convinced that it's incredibly dangerous for adolescents to have online social circles at all

social media fucks us all up but when you're still in the impressionable "uncritically absorbing your culture's values and folkways" neurological stage you should not be routinely associating with people outside your immediate physical community, period

and people who take advantage of the vulnerability of children to reprogram them as footsoldiers for a political cause should face the death penalty, they're the moral equivalent of pedophiles