Konstantin Kisin

And I think this was the thing that really damaged my generation is that it's a public ranking of you and it's inescapable.

Yeah.

Well, I think girls...

we use indirect forms of aggression, which will be reputation destruction.

And this is a theme throughout the book, is that we're not only turning into products, but we're looking at each other like we're products as well, treating other people like objects, ranking and reviewing them.

And you lose your sense, not only that you're fully human, that other people are fully human as well.

And so you're judging, you're growing up judging other young girls on how many likes they get, how many followers they have.

And you can go after their reputation by, say, posting an unflattering photo of them on Facebook that they can't take down.

Or you can go after their reputation by, you know, attacking them because they haven't posted the Black Lives Matter square and they have offensive opinions.

And it's all public.

And so I think the reputation destruction that used to happen on playgrounds is now happening online and then getting recommended to other children by algorithms.

Yeah, and I think it's quite cruel that we give them a technology that is for adults, essentially.

And they haven't formed their opinions yet.

They haven't formed a sense of self-worth and who they are.

So when you're young, you're experimenting and you're figuring all of that out.

And then we give them a technology that never forgets anything.

And also on social media, you have to categorize yourself or it will categorize you for you.

But you have to list your features like a product.

You have to list the things you're interested in.

And you have girls doing that, say, 12, 13, and then they change a lot.