Generation Clickbait: we owe our children a total social media ban
We’re playing a deadly game and waiting for a tragedy
6 min readFeb 17, 2024
There’s always something haunting about seeing a child’s face on the news. The school photograph. The missing milk teeth, the socks slipping down a grazed knee, the hands clasped forever around a dolly. And the almost certain knowledge that the only reason you’re seeing that child at all is that a silent, unseen monster has stolen away their short life, and robbed their family of their light. I grew up in the paedophile panic of…