This is true, I can't argue with it. But recently there's been a bunch of stories about increased suicide rates and kids/social media. Yes, parents have a responsibility here, the major one, and maybe it's time more exercised that and steered their kids away from it entirely.
All the generations before them survived without posting selfies, I'm sure the current one could survive without it too. Can't tell you how gross I find mother daughter duck face selfies.
LOL. When computers and the internet first came along I saw it as a great achievement that would be a fantastic tool ... all the knowledge of the world at the fingertips of everyone kinda thing. I was there as it began and made sure my kids had access long before their peers. All was great. But it's devolved into something that's not as much of an asset, as a unfair burden. I guess I should become a Luddite.
You're not wrong, but that is why it is important to teach these life skills to children.
If she placed that much value in what malicious strangers said, then I feel that reflects on the parents failing to prepare her for life.