Social Media

Age focus: 10–18 Social media rarely talks directly about desire. It doesn’t need to. Desire is taught through repetition. Through patterns. Through what is rewarded with attention and what quietly disappears. Long before young people have the language to talk about attraction or worth, they are absorbing lessons about who matters and why. These lessons feel neutral. They aren’t. Desire is shaped by what is visible Social media platforms are built to show young people what k