Should social media sites be legally responsible if some people become "addicted" to them?

[RingOfFire]

STOP MAKING FOOD AND GASOLINE BECAUSE I AM ADDICTED...

What the hell are the social media sites supposed to do? Make their sites less appealing so people with mental disorders or children with derelict parents who don't properly supervise them can't addicted to them? Everyone else has to suffer to accommodate people who should be getting professional help themselves? What kind of society is this becoming that a few people with mental issues or an inability to take care of their own responsibilities can dictate what the vast majority of people have access to?

I LOVE YOUTUBE AND GOOGLE... GET A LIFE AND STOP BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE FOR YOUR OWN LACK OF RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR !!!

NO! Everyone is responsible for their OWN BEHAVIOR. The social media sites should make their sites as good and as attractive as they can possibly be for everyone else! They shouldn't be controlled by the mentally challenged or the irresponsible. Stop trying to pawn off the blame on other people.

YES! I am a weak and helpless person and the entire country needs to suffer to cater to my mental issues. SOCIETY is responsible for my behavior NOT ME! Make everyone else PAY!

Updates

3 mo

No one forces anyone to watch YouTube. If you can't control your own behavior that's not YouTube's fault. Get professional help and stop trying to blame other people for your own lack of responsibility.

[strawberryapple]

I’m glad you posted this question but it infuriates me at the same time. Everything in life is potentially addictive to the right personality. People need to learn to be responsible for themselves and not look to the nanny state for that. Blaming social media for your lack of self-control is like blaming spoons and forks because of your obesity.

[RingOfFire]

👍👍👍

[Zack-Bann]

I don’t understand why you feel so strongly about this.
It’s hardly a controversial topic


And we all seem to agree that it’s stupid to consider sites responsible for the addiction


Even though they are deliberately designed to retain your attention as long as possible


I agree that it’s a personal weakness if you can’t put your phone down and not the fault of some company

[RingOfFire]

I feel so strongly about it because the case I posted the headline about in the post was a landmark, first of its kind case where the social media providers were found liable for a person who claimed to be "addicted" to their sites. It opened the door to potentially destroy the entire social media industry with thousands of lawsuits from leeches seeking similar damages for their own behavior. This is a massive issue.

[Jeff51]

No. You have the problem not the site. To be honest if the world wide web would suddenly collapse and we loose internet and I'll be fine with that. I'll get myself a flip phone and call it a day.

[RingOfFire]

Right... but you are not trying to shut down the Internet for everyone else just because of your own preferences. That's the important point here.

[Jeff51]

Thank you for the MHO

[sage2021]

That would be hard to prove in a court of law.
None of your options fit my choices.

[RingOfFire]

No one forces anyone to watch YouTube. If you can't control your own behavior that's not YouTube's fault. Get professional help and stop trying to blame other people for your own lack of responsibility.

[strawberryapple]

I believe it was yesterday where a family was awarded millions of dollars for this. that will make so-called victims come out of the woodwork.

[RingOfFire]

You bet it will... there will be millions of these freeloaders trying to capitalize on this ripoff.

[strawberryapple]

The woke destroy everything in their path. Elon was spot on when he said: “ the woke are a bunch of childish crybabies that need everything to go their way.”

[sage2021]

@RingOfFire

I really hope that your reply wasn't pointed at me.
I'm responsible for my own behavior. Good grief! I'm 71 years old I already learned that a long time ago.

[RingOfFire]

@sage2021

No! My reply was not about you at all!

[RingOfFire]

@sage2021
🥰
You are awesome!

[sage2021]

@RingOfFire

Back at you as you are awesome for standing up for me when another member wasn't being very nice to me and you sent me this song that I will never forget. Thank you!🧡

https://youtu.be/9bZ1taaJ5nE?si=5gA2QhKD5Ary_QJq

[strawberryapple]

Cool song!

[sage2021]

https://youtu.be/tnpgwh3Qvqc?si=c81L5fSwQ7M1cKRT

@RingOfFire
This is the exact version of the song you sent to me. It's perfect! Love it!

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂🧡

[exitseven]

Whats wrong with parents limiting their kid's exposure to social media? They are the ones buying them the cell phone in the first place. Everyone has the "everyone else is doing it " mindset and use social media as a babysitter. No wonder these kids are glued to these devices.

[Chloe_Jones]

It's totally up to the user of the sites. If they become addicted it's their fault and not the sites fault

[Cidknee]

No, of course not!

As I read the quotation I thought, oh man, I'm gonna have to go against the Fire.

But thank God you haven't slipped a gear. 😅

[Snakeyes7]

I think social media algorithms are a problem but for surveillance reasons not necessarily for making the Darwin award easier to deliver.

[strateguy632]

Each person only, is responsible for their OWN BEHAVIOR.

[MrChinaski]

Of course for adults... but minors?

[RingOfFire]

If minors are having issues with social media that is their parents' responsibility not the site's.

[Sophia1998]

We need people to show us what could happen.

[RingOfFire]

What do you mean?

[Sophia1998]

If they do something super genius.

[RingOfFire]

Sorry, don't know what you are talking about. Please try to explain it in more detail if you can.

[RingOfFire]

Maybe you mean that we should be able to have videos online to show us things so we can learn stuff and that's why YouTube and other sites like it should not be told that they are responsible for people who become addicted to them?

[Jonettacali]

Did it taste good