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Social media’s push for the perfect muscular body is fuelling a new form of disordered eating — and young men are most at risk (theconversation.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/fitness@lemmy.world

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup, there's now 2 types of "The Talks" the classic sex one and now one about the lies of social media.

Even though my kids aren't old enough to be on it yet, I regularly talk with them about what it is and how it "tricks you", with things like "People only post the happy parts of their lives and not the bad stuff" and going over algorithms and what they do. Hell, I've even been teaching them how to recognize AI crap

I cannot stop them from getting on social media forever, but I can sure as hell teach them about its problems ahead of time

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You sound like a good parent. Props.