depression existed before smartphones, but now everyone can record viral tiktoks lamenting their depression for views/engagement while other depressed people consume it
Worse than that, there's sites where they can discuss suicide and get advice on methods. Now maybe adults should be free to discuss these things, but it's certainly something that young people should be protected from.
USENET was generally known to and read only by adults. That doesn't apply to youth today like machine-gun-cadence, trivially accessible, algo-driven audiovisual content on Facebook, Youtube, Tiktok etc. Is.