on the self esteem of kids and young adults.



Really well done.

Yes, well done. And very true.

That was good.

Pray it helps a soul out there.

Great message about parents needing to step up and do our job. I'd have to read about the Kids Online Safety Act bill before I comment on it, like most bills with a name like that I can't help but assume it is a poison pill of pork and BS.

Social media is 10x worse than any violent video game.

The companies will fight any reform and we know their hooks run deep.

HumbleAg04 said:

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Great message about parents needing to step up and do our job. I'd have to read about the Kids Online Safety Act bill before I comment on it, like most bills with a name like that I can't help but assume it is a poison pill of pork and BS.

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A quick google on it and all the articles/groups against it are because it could limit knowledge of LGBTQ+ stuff and cause some companies to have to over censor things around health if they don't know their viewers. That sounds like a win/win to me but I'm sure there's some other pork in there to

They say social media is harming the mental health of 3 in 5 kids, but I'm confident the same applies to adults.

As a girl who grew up as social media was becoming popular, I heavily relate to this and applaud dove for having the courage to make this ad. Parents, please keep your kids active in hobbies or sports and off of social media as much as possible. It's harmful trash and the bane of our society.

Really touching ad. Hard for me not to blame the parents. Parenting is hard but that scene where they grab the phone and the kid pulls away-- that's bull*****

My kids aren't having phones for a long time. This is a good reminder to be proactive and not reactive with parenting. Being strict is fine if needed. Read about parenting kids and educate yourself.

Social Media is just a medium--its a tool like a gun. Used in the wrong way or left in the hands of the negligent and you can get bad results. Be a good parent--as good as you can be. Dont second guess yourself when it is time to intervene--your kids can be your friends second, first, you're a parent.

Tom Kazansky 2012 said:

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Really touching ad. Hard for me not to blame the parents. Parenting is hard but that scene where they grab the phone and the kid pulls away-- that's bull*****

My kids aren't having phones for a long time. This is a good reminder to be proactive and not reactive with parenting. Being strict is fine if needed. Read about parenting kids and educate yourself.

Social Media is just a medium--its a tool like a gun. Used in the wrong way or left in the hands of the negligent and you can get bad results. Be a good parent--as good as you can be. Dont second guess yourself when it is time to intervene--your kids can be your friends second, first, you're a parent.

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The difference between a gun and social media is one is specifically designed to be addicting and suck all of your attention. I'd liken it more to alcohol. Moderation is fine but the addictive nature needs to be understood from the start

Social media is 10% tool and 90% entertainment. And I'm being generous with "entertainment ".

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As a girl who grew up as social media was becoming popular, I heavily relate to this and applaud dove for having the courage to make this ad. Parents, please keep your kids active in hobbies or sports and off of social media as much as possible. It's harmful trash and the bane of our society.

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I've been saying social media is a scourge for years and years. None of my kids will be allowed on it. Hopefully they do not go behind my back. Its going to be tough to raise three daughters.

Sign the petition!

https://act.parentstogetheraction.org/petitions/pass-the-kids-online-safety-act?source=website-pta_an_petition_kosa_0622_pta&

Total agreement with you here. Kids are just more susceptible to peer pressure and they don't have any idea of what life was like before social media.

It won't be easy in this day and age that's for sure but just continue to give them lots of love, affirmation, and above all get them involved in something to occupy their time away from the phone and social media. Wishing you and your girls the best.

I don't expect the uni-party to pass anything with any teeth on this front. Social media is too good of a tool for identifying their opposition.

I think there are going to be problems with keeping kids off social media when they have school assignments and research involving Twitter/YouTube/Facebook/discord.

This may be where you homeschool

Only thing fake in that video was the girl getting a phone for her 12th birthday.

It was probably age 9 or 10.

Most of the rest is standard White Middle Class Female teenage behavior. No doubt worse than it's ever been due to Instagram fakery.

Demon Spawn did get his for his 12th birthday

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I think there are going to be problems with keeping kids off social media when they have school assignments and research involving Twitter/YouTube/Facebook/discord.

This may be where you homeschool

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very hard to keep them off completely. But for the love....PLEASE monitor kids phones. We all pay for our kid's phones. WE own the phones, not them.
Our kids (14,18, and 20) know that I or my wife can pick up or request to see their phones at ANY time and go through all social media. It's amazing what you can learn about their peers and which ones are going in a "bad" direction. To no surprise, the ones that are making really poor choices, have no parental oversight and those parents are often the ones telling everyone how "perfect" their child is...Oh if you only knew, Karen!

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Sign the petition!

https://act.parentstogetheraction.org/petitions/pass-the-kids-online-safety-act?source=website-pta_an_petition_kosa_0622_pta&

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Love the sentiment - not sure I trust the mechanism. I fell for the patriot act as a younger man - but can learn and am now much more wary of solutions.

Hits home for me. We have a 9 year old daughter who desperately wants a phone and mentions her friends having one etc. not easy to hold out but this ad definitely helps!

Thankfully we have her in softball and outdoors a lot. Only going to get tougher as she gets older.

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Social Media is no more the problem than guns.

The problem is the people who use it.

Advertisements have always made women and young girls struggle with their self-image. Suicide and eating disorders have been around for decades.

Bullies are the problem and they'll still be an issue without Social Media.

The problem is the condition of people's heart and as long as you have mean and hateful parents who treat people like trash, you'll have mean and hateful kids who treat others like trash.

And when people get treated like trash they have a poor self-image and do self-destructive things.

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"Cliffs have always been dangerous for kids, a sinkhole that just opened up in your kid's room is no different!"

Yes - every generation has its challenges - but it's unwise to underestimate this one.

Great ad.

I can't wait for the day when we start treating the social media contagion of trans ideology/gender identify the same way as other body image disorders.

You did not have to buy your kids $1,000 iPhones. You could have bought them better friends.

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Tom Kazansky 2012 said:

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Really touching ad. Hard for me not to blame the parents. Parenting is hard but that scene where they grab the phone and the kid pulls away-- that's bull*****

My kids aren't having phones for a long time. This is a good reminder to be proactive and not reactive with parenting. Being strict is fine if needed. Read about parenting kids and educate yourself.

Social Media is just a medium--its a tool like a gun. Used in the wrong way or left in the hands of the negligent and you can get bad results. Be a good parent--as good as you can be. Dont second guess yourself when it is time to intervene--your kids can be your friends second, first, you're a parent.

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The difference between a gun and social media is one is specifically designed to be addicting and suck all of your attention. I'd liken it more to alcohol. Moderation is fine but the addictive nature needs to be understood from the start

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Right. I know i am in the minority but social media is a net good for society once used correctly. Typically it is not used correctly, but that can be achieved and likely will be in my lifetime.

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Tom Kazansky 2012 said:

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Really touching ad. Hard for me not to blame the parents. Parenting is hard but that scene where they grab the phone and the kid pulls away-- that's bull*****

My kids aren't having phones for a long time. This is a good reminder to be proactive and not reactive with parenting. Being strict is fine if needed. Read about parenting kids and educate yourself.

Social Media is just a medium--its a tool like a gun. Used in the wrong way or left in the hands of the negligent and you can get bad results. Be a good parent--as good as you can be. Dont second guess yourself when it is time to intervene--your kids can be your friends second, first, you're a parent.

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By "a long time" I assume you don't have kids.

Our kid's Middle School had group projects that required students to work together. They coordinated via phone. I'm anti-Apple and our kids had Samsung phones. If someone starts the Group chat with an iPhone... guess what... Android users are screwed. We had to buy our kids iPhones because of it. $1000 phone with antiquated technology... just so they could do school work.

My kids didn't have Social Media... until one day my Middle Schooler had a friend show him a Snap of my son coming into school that morning with a terrible caption. Because my son didn't have Social Media, he didn't know about it until his friend showed him. Guess what... now my son is paranoid everyday wondering what is being said about him that he doesn't know. He is anxious someone will come up and show him a trail of SM about him. He got blamed for many things where kids were able to conspire behind his back because he wasn't on SM.

This same son has been very helpful for some of his other friends who confide in my son stuff they are struggling with. One was suicidal. He reached out to my son because he knew my son had some privacy from us, so it is a double edged sword on the privacy side.

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I have two boys that are very young. We plan on having more kids in short order. They likely won't have phones until high school as the Catholic private school they are going to for elementary and middle doesn't allow them.

HollywoodBQ said:

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You did not have to buy your kids $1,000 iPhones. You could have bought them better friends.

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This may have been in jest but I am starting to really judge people in my neighborhood and community who drive new 100k cars and ***** about the school district.

Not to be high and mighty but my wife and I are dead set on paying extremely good money to have my children in the correct schools (non-government schools) rather than the "free" ones.

There are plenty of ways to get around not having a phone to do projects.

My twin girls will be 13 in August and one of them was sometimes asking for a phone last year, but not a peep about it this year from either of them. Even when their friends come over with their phones, they don't even mention it. One day they'll get a flip phone to start with...

I'M NOT CRYING.

Good message.

Tom Kazansky 2012 said:

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The Banned said:

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Tom Kazansky 2012 said:

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Really touching ad. Hard for me not to blame the parents. Parenting is hard but that scene where they grab the phone and the kid pulls away-- that's bull*****

My kids aren't having phones for a long time. This is a good reminder to be proactive and not reactive with parenting. Being strict is fine if needed. Read about parenting kids and educate yourself.

Social Media is just a medium--its a tool like a gun. Used in the wrong way or left in the hands of the negligent and you can get bad results. Be a good parent--as good as you can be. Dont second guess yourself when it is time to intervene--your kids can be your friends second, first, you're a parent.

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The difference between a gun and social media is one is specifically designed to be addicting and suck all of your attention. I'd liken it more to alcohol. Moderation is fine but the addictive nature needs to be understood from the start

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Right. I know i am in the minority but social media is a net good for society once used correctly. Typically it is not used correctly, but that can be achieved and likely will be in my lifetime.

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Maybe. But the creators of the this technology are very clear that their entire goal is eyeballs in screens as much as possible. The algorithms are designed to put the terrible stuff to the top and downgrade the good content. I don't see how it gets better unless the creators/moderators if this content go against their own self interest/agendas.

Tom Kazansky 2012 said:

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Really touching ad. Hard for me not to blame the parents. Parenting is hard but that scene where they grab the phone and the kid pulls away-- that's bull*****

My kids aren't having phones for a long time. This is a good reminder to be proactive and not reactive with parenting. Being strict is fine if needed. Read about parenting kids and educate yourself.

Social Media is just a medium--its a tool like a gun. Used in the wrong way or left in the hands of the negligent and you can get bad results. Be a good parent--as good as you can be. Dont second guess yourself when it is time to intervene--your kids can be your friends second, first, you're a parent.

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I agree with you 100%, but my girl is just a toddler. Sounds pretty easy to me now...until they get to a certain age and everyone of their friends has one and is living part of their life on it and expressing themselves daily to all of their friends.

I pray to God this changes and there is some type of massive awakening...but it's a lot easier for guys like me to say when they are young. I do not look forward to fighting that fight.

There really does need a movement in this country to protect the youth. I appreciate the awareness this commercial brings and hope it spreads. Teenage and even pre-teen depression, suicide and other disorders is off the charts and growing...especially with girls. This commercial is probably the first one in years to actually bring tears to my eyes...one of my worst fears is for my precious little girl to be conned by the evil world into thinking she's not good enough.

texsn95 said:

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My twin girls will be 13 in August and one of them was sometimes asking for a phone last year, but not a peep about it this year from either of them. Even when their friends come over with their phones, they don't even mention it. One day they'll get a flip phone to start with...

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This is how I see it going with my sons. They'll understand someday. And if they get mad and never understand why I kept them from having a phone until high school--I don't particularly care.