Absolutely.
That's a loaded question. There are a lot of different ways to look at it.
One of the biggest things that I look at is the fake profiles or fake accounts on Snapchat. Kids are getting friend requests from people they don't know. They're adding people they don't know. They're snapchatting with people they don't know. They assume that it's just someone from their community or someone whom someone else knows. That is having a deep effect on our children. They are conversing with a lot of strangers.
Then there's the comparison culture piece, where they're watching influencers on social media posting things, and they become popular because they have the most likes. There are so many things on social media that are terrifying our kids into this comparison culture and making it unsafe. They don't feel adequate, and exploiters and predators prey on that. I will follow up with a deeper explanation, but it's mostly that they create a sense of vulnerability, and human traffickers, exploiters and predators prey on that. They know exactly where to find it, based on a child's social media presence or profile.
