Social media will fuel the genocide of my generation
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Politicians, whistleblowers and tech companies have been debating whether apps like Instagram and Tiktok are bad for the mental health of young teenagers, particularly girls. I am a fourteen-year-old girl on social media and, to me, that’s not news.
Four years since the death of fourteen-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life after reportedly seeing content depicting self-harm and suicide on social media, posts like this are as dominant as ever. Self-harm is not just prominent on social media, it is revered. Molly’s death reflects an online world fuelling an epidemic.
This sort of content is often introduced into our social media threads slowly, in ways which make you unaware of the danger of engaging with it. A lot of the time you are fine, with Tiktok showing you normal videos reflecting the day-to-day. But then, when you are not fine, the app picks up on this and shows you videos that reflect your mood.
Groups of young people post videos sharing laughter at their mutual ...
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