For years, anecdotal evidence and scholarly research have shown the dangers social media can hold for kids and teens. The groundbreaking 'Social Studies' shows us what that looks like in real time.
My 17-year-old daughter occasionally reminds me that if I had been more supportive of her early success on Musical.ly, she might be a TikTok star by now and I could retire. Presumably to be her manager. I regret nothing. Certainly not after watching the FX docuseries “Social Studies.” As schools reopened after the COVID-19 closures, filmmaker Lauren Greenfield set out to explore the impact of social media on the first generation of “digital natives.
Now, though, those “lives” are carefully curated visions that bear little resemblance to reality, those “friends” can include thousands of strangers , and that drama plays out not in rumor or whispers but in an avalanche of vitriolic commentary. There is also friendship and fun, news and silly videos. But virtually all of the students prominently featured in “Social Studies” have a love/hate relationship with the platforms on which they regularly post. Well, more than that.
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