Taylor Lorenz

They don't participate in, you know, team sports have been sort of bought out by private equity.

Yeah, I think parents are also more nervous.

One thing that I found was really interesting too is kids today are a lot less likely to have a trusted adult in their lives that's not their parent.

So 30, 40 years ago, they were more likely to have a coach, a teacher, a mentor.

They're more likely to engage with adults that weren't directly their family members.

And I think for whatever reason, and I was talking to researchers about there are many reasons this is,

kids and adults are becoming much more stratified.

So we're seeing this world of like the kids' world and the adult world.

On the internet, everybody is together, but IRL, kids don't necessarily have people to go to.

And so I think they turn to these online spaces for support.

Well, listen, social media companies do a lot of bad things.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about... These are profit-maximizing tech companies that have done a lot of harm in the world.

No one's going to go out there and be like,

Meta really cares about the world.

You know, these are companies that have helped facilitate atrocities in places like Myanmar and, you know, like and they've been really irresponsible.

They're ultimately profit driven platforms that don't they're not optimizing for like our societal well-being.

But I think we need to understand that, like.

Companies are you know, we have we live under capitalism.

That is the economic system that we live in.

Companies exist to make a profit.