Hey Positivesynergy I originally was going to say that I genuinely thought that Steemit exists in a category then Facebook or Twitter but as I started typing I totally changed my mind. I worry about my use of social media, it has the capacity to be extremely useful as a tool for acquiring knowledge, forming communities and maintaining relationships. The reality? It just isn't. I think there is not enough concern given to the effects social media is having on our children. This is my thinking

We like to play off the effects of social media on children as trivial. It isn't front page news and we dismiss regulation because it seems overly restrictive and ultimately impossible.

Looking through history at the social events that eventually lead to massive change, we see tiny events. We see slight shifts in perspective, or strange social responses to natural phenomenon. We are undoubtedly still feeling the impact that the invention of telegram had on our societies, in how it changed communication between people and thereby shifted some of our perceptions and consequently our social structure and systems.

In the last 15 years, the way our children learn and grow and psychologically develop has changed drastically. The ability to instantaneously video communicate with anyone on earth, s new. The gamification of social status, that's scary and it's new. In fact the invention of the smartphone gave every access to everything.

The reason I'm saying all this, is because I sometimes I try to look almost retrospectively and think 'What good impacts could this have in the future and in what was could this positively develop' and I'm quite hard streched to think of anyway it looks good.

I'm rambling...