Social Media and Suicide Risk

The Most Serious Question of the Digital Age By SocialMediaPlague.org Introduction: A Conversation Society Can No Longer Avoid There are many criticisms of social media. It distracts people. It fragments attention. It encourages comparison. It fuels outrage. It weakens relationships. It erodes attention spans. It replaces presence with performance. These harms matter. But none of […]

THE SOCIALMEDIAPLAGUE MANIFESTO

Human attention is under attack. We are here to reclaim it. Our Core Belief Social media is fundamentally harmful to human flourishing. We Believe We believe human attention is among the most valuable resources on earth. We believe attention belongs to individuals— not algorithms, corporations, or machines engineered to exploit it. We believe the business […]

Why Ban Children Under 18 From Social Media?

The Case for Protecting the Most Vulnerable Generation in Human History By SocialMediaPlague.org Introduction: A Question That No Longer Sounds Extreme A decade ago, the idea of banning children from social media would have sounded radical. Extreme. Alarmist. Unrealistic. Today, it sounds increasingly reasonable. Around the world, governments, parents, teachers, psychologists, pediatricians, public health officials, […]