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Social Media Toxicity

Today's topic was brought to my attention during a recent happy hour dicussion with my girlfriends. I highly recommend creating a friend group that is a safe space to air everything, and that's exactly what we do. No one is competitive or jealous, just a lovely group of moms trying to raise healthy kids and spilling all of their insecurities over a glass of wine. On this particular night, we were discussing one friend's child who is going through several challenging circumstances. Her sweet baby was doing their best to get through life, and guess what? Social media did it's thing and piled on. She was telling us about how the kids in her child's class would take video of her child and post it on Snapchat, where it would spread like wildfire. Kids would then use the posts to harass and embarrass. This makes me  so  angry. How is this happening?  A lot of kids have more access to social media than they need. And no judgement - I'm not in anyone else's shoes, a...