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Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing (www.theguardian.com)

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Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing::Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

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[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I think it's a bit easy to blame the environment when almost every kid is going to test that kind of thing at some point in their teens. Watching your children AND regulating snapchat surely can coexist

[–] isles@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (9 children)

when almost every kid is going to test that kind of thing at some point in their teens.

How did you come to this conclusion?

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Being around teenagers in the last decade pretty much leads to this conclusion.

The number of people I knew who didn’t do some kind of drugs in high school (grad 2017) was lower than the number that did, and I went to the known “upper middle class white people” school.

This day and age has led to teens increasingly seek escapism and other, less healthy coping mechanisms

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