Seventy-two percent of teenagers are confiding in AI companions while simultaneously expressing distrust of AI technology.

That contradiction isn't a paradox. It's a mirror.

What we're seeing isn't teen fascination with artificial intelligence. It's evidence of a profound failure of human support systems. When a third of teenagers say their conversations with AI are more satisfying than conversations with actual people, we're witnessing the quiet death of intimacy.

Netflix’s Adolescence doesn’t hold back. It paints an honest, sometimes uncomfortable picture of what it means to grow up in a hyper-connected world. Teenagers tangled in the scroll, lost in late-night messages, struggling to find their identity through a filtered lens - it's all there. And for those of us parenting in this digital age, it hits close to home.

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