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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Social media is to kids today what cigarettes were to teens last century. Might even be better compared to the Radium marketing blitz that poisoned so many while making a few very rich.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Social media is way worse, and it's not even close.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    That's an apples to oranges comparison. One is physical health and other mental health and both are hard to quantify

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's not me who made the comparison.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why are you ignoring the comment that I was responding to?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not, he's not comparing cigarettes to social media, he's saying that social media has replaced cigarettes as the vice of choice for young people.

    Hes does compare it to Radium poisoning though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    He literally makes an analogous comparison in the first sentence to cigarettes and social media.

    So I say again, why were you ignoring the obvious comparisons that I was referencing with my reply?

    And for the record, I completely disagree with your apples vs oranges dismissal.

    They are not apples and oranges, as both cigarettes and social media use are directly linked to statistically significant poor health outcomes in people who use them.

    But, if you really have a problem with that comparison, you should have replied to the person who introduced that lengthy line of conversation and not just people quickly responding to it.

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