Social Media is Moloch and It’s Eating Our Teenagers

Eric Scheske
Dialogue & Discourse
4 min readApr 4, 2024

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Photo by Chitto Cancio on Unsplash

The evidence is in: Social media kills children.

Well, it at least seriously wounds them. Or at least many of them.

And no matter what, there ain’t no adult with an ounce of sense who claims it’s good for them.

You know who else thinks it’s not good for them? The children themselves. Surveys show that youth consistently say…

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Eric Scheske
Dialogue & Discourse

Former editor of Gilbert Mag and columnist for NC Register and Busted Halo. Freelance for many print pubs. Publishes here every Monday+. Paid Medium Member.