Warning Labels For Social Media Are A Terrible Idea...A Podcast with Owen Muir, M.D.

Yesterday’s column was a fine article, but what if you miss my snarky tone while reading it to yourself? Problem? Solved. Dear Readers, here is the podcast version of the aforementioned article!

Owen Muir, M.D., DFAACAP Next to Carlene MacMillan, M.D., who creates a series of helpful guides as the chair of the AACAP committee responsible for the “Facts for Families Series.”

For those hoping for actual solutions? The AACAP Facts for Families series of guides exist! For example, you can learn how to prepare for your child’s first cell phone. You can also get expert guidance from actual child psychiatry doctors on Internet Use In Children. Or we could follow scaremongering from the Surgeon General? That is also an option.

My ChatGPT prompt:

“Please generate a scary warning label for social media that the surgeon general could place on social media platforms that would terrify young people into not using social media quite as much.”

Here is the warning label it came up with:

I think we are really getting somewhere.