>Literally attempted suicide    Code for, "I threw a temper tantrum until my parents gave me my phone back"    >and other suicides have been successful under the same conditions.    Which should tell you that kids having 24/7 access to cell phones and social media is part of the problem, not the solution.      I was a teenager in the time before cell phones (my parents had a car phone) and the internet (I could use my 2400 bps modem to call into local BBS systems) and I hate to sound cliche but kids were a hell of a lot better adjusted.  If we wanted to talk to someone we actually had to talk to them and there was no drive to impress (or bully) our peers on social media.    A kid under the age of 16 doesn't need a cell phone, nor do they need unrestricted access to social media.  Sorry, they just don't.  At 16 you're much closer to being an adult than a kid and you gain the ability to drive so a cell phone isn't a terrible idea.      Sorry, but I think we're raising a generation of kids who will be damaged by the internet, OP is just one example of that and so is the related post talking about the kid who thinks they are trans.