9 August

Parents doing this. Kids as products to be sold. I’m well aware that pretty much everything I post to social media isn’t the sort of thing people log on to see. Imagine turning your own life into a product. Even those who don’t go to these extremes are still uploading and living their personal lives, through these platforms. Social media platforms are not public life. But they’ve become that. They’re the extension of high school culture, to all life. It’s why we’re not fighting pandemics or climate change, and why obvious changes to energy and transportation have to fight to be heard. You’re more likely to get selfies in front of Covid corpses than you are to see anything done to stop the pandemic. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-09/instagram-meta-monetised-child-influencer-account-ban/104190956?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link