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Francis Foster

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

Because when I was growing up, and this also happened 20 years ago because of the tabloid press,

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

more and more parents, understandably so, were concerned about safety.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

And in particular, physical safety.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

And it seemed like every summer there'd be some type of horrific crime where a young girl got kidnapped and they went missing.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

Awful.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

So people equated safety with physical safety.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

And they think, well, if my daughter's upstairs on her phone, she's safe.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

But that's not true.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

And it's also as well that

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

The more time you spend online, the more it warps your ideas of the world.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

Because in the real world, there are certain things that you cannot do.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

I see a lot of young men doing this, in particular, a lot of young men in our space, speaking to people in ways which are, quite frankly, antagonistic, borderline disrespectful.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

And there's part of me thinking, mate, if you talk like that to that bloke in real life, you get your head kicked in.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

But if that's all you've known, which is going on social media and then being, to put it quite frankly, a prick, and getting away with it, and not even getting away with it, just getting engagement, then why wouldn't you do that?

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

Bring back head kicking.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

It was really interesting you said this.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

I was on a date with someone and she said, I was like, oh, well, what's dating like?

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

How are you finding it?

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

And she went, it's awful.

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How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India

And I went, what do you mean?