Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

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

  • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    1 year ago

    Yep. It’s crazy and not in a good way. 20 years ago the edgy kids smoked pot and not much worse. Now there’s kids literally doing cocaine in bathrooms of high schools. Pot is not only normalized, it’s almost encouraged among teenagers now.

    I’m a pothead to an extreme degree and I keep telling kids to not be like me.

    • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      I had kids doing cocaine in our high school bathrooms 25 years ago, which is why anecdotes are unreliable for sense-making.

      • Peaty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Exactly, the 1980s existed and some of us were alive then. I was too young to see coke in high school as I started in 1989 but older siblings absolutely did.

      • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Fair, and I’m not saying that it didn’t happen, but I’d bet it was less people than are doing it now. What we can all probably agree on is that high schoolers doing coke is bad and we’d like that number to trend down, not up.