>>26258
Unfortunately the issue is gatekeeping, or the lack there of with social media. Kids have always imitated what they perceive to be popular, but there used to be some level of gatekeeping/censoring-via-availability but with social media there is none. Like when I was growing up everyone wanted to be a TV/Movie star and this fundamentally the same thing. The difference is that there are standards for what can and can not shown on TV or in a movie and there are far less on social media.
I think a good solution would be to have multiple age rating for social media rather then just having an everyone and an 18+ rating.
Enforcement is an issue, and I know a lot of people are terrified of letting the government in on regulating this kind of stuff, but I think thats the only way that it can be done. We should just take the existing TV/Movie ratings scale and apply it to social media sites. As for enforcement, if we give parents of at least checking to see what kind of rating the content creator their kids are watching are making they can make an informed decision to not allow them to watch their content, or at least make it harder for them to watch it.
Requiring a credit card transaction to access the entire social media site isn't a bad idea necessarily, I know it would have stopped me from accessing shit my parents wouldn't want me to, and, card holders can be sent a list of the content that was access on the account linked to that card via that crediting agency which will allow parents to see what their kids are watching and they can be given a break down of how much time is spent on content of each rating.
This does unfortunately keep people with bad credit out and possibly pave a way for a social credit system.