I often feel very hopeless about this. As an adult, I have to put a non insignificant portion of my brain and willpower to fight against social media addition. I have Twitter, use it rarely. I have instagram and have both a business and a personal account. I’ve always prided myself in never giving it any of my time. It was dormant for almost a decade and my friends called me a social hermit. I liked it. Then I started taking a peek, and noticed myself sinking deeper and deeper. I enabled the timer and I ignore it every time. I’m likely going to have to delete the app. I won’t even dare install or signup to TikTok. I use HN because I actually get a lot of value from it. Great dev tool recommendations, it’s a great GitHub repo discovery tool, product ideas, I learn a lot and I get to hear/read from many startup founders.<p>From this experience I know kids have no hope. I mean none. And I think we all know this, and Zuck knows this, I mean everyone. So now when we argue agains regulation we’re just regurgitating things like “rights”, “free speech”, “section 230”, etc. but what do we owe do the social contract that makes us better without sabotaging future generations? What is the actual, practical solution that does not take 2 generations to improve 1%?<p>I know that an actual solution will hurt a lot of companies, a lot of revenue and forecasts will disappear. But should that sometimes not be the solution? It certainly is for less protected/influential people.