Passenger on Nostr: One of the issues in my area is that there is increasingly nothing else for kids to ...

One of the issues in my area is that there is increasingly nothing else for kids to do. Youth centres are run on a shoestring or closed down entirely, parks react to groups of loitering kids as if they're criminals, and malls don't want them there unless they're going to buy something.

I suspect that a certain amount of why kids use social media is that it's a refuge: there is nowhere else for them to go to socialise with people their own age.