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They don't. That is why regulation is necessary.
Just like how expecting people to recycle was bad policy.
Though I wouldn't be opposed to there being statutory regulations against parents whose kids get addicted to these applications and end up self-deleting or causing harm to others, not unlike how we're seeing the state start to go after parents who fail to secure their guns. But just trusting parents to parent isn't an option anymore. There's simply too much evidence of the harm these applications cause.
I have some sympathy with your view, but still downvoted because I refuse to accept it's conclusion. Look at Japan, Scandinavia and many other countries where social responsibility still prevails. Throwing hands up and saying "well it's just human nature" is the laziest get-out to avoid fixing the broken parts of ones own excessive, hedonistic culture.
It might be true that the ones that need to be convinced won't listen to the argument itself. But we can start to re-empower more responsible citizens to impose shame - yes, fucking shame - on those that raise their kids and otherwise act irresponsibly in so many ways: the polluting shit they consume, the regimes they support with the subscriptions they pay for, the inefficient gas guzzlers they decide to drive off the forecourt. It needs checking.