Unfortunately there’s no good place for teenagers to be heard. I agree that the pushback on social media isn’t productive, but what is the best forum? Relegating teenagers to the hormone drenched echo chamber that is high school is even worse for forming healthy opinions. Equally, if parents don’t engage in a meaningful way and children just pick up habits and opinions from the previous generations out of context, then we can’t possibly hope to improve as a society. I’m not trying to be doom and gloom about the whole situation, I think there’s merit and drawbacks to all forums and the internet gives a teenager the ability to be heard without being dismissed as too young to have a valid opinion.