> Mr. Haidt has addressed classes of seventh- and eighth-graders on the perils of social media. “I ask them, ‘Would you get off it on your own?’ Many are afraid to do that. But when I ask, ‘What if nobody could be on? Would that be better?’ they mostly say yes.”

I hope to help my kids find friend groups that aren't super online. If there were family meetup groups to facilitate this, I would join in an instant. Even if they had some school friends who were super online and some other friends who weren't, they'd be better off since they'd be able to see the different ways of interacting.

What’s the easiest way to get archive links to stuff like this. I always have to wait until someone posts the link.

Just go to the main archive site: https://archive.ph/ and search the URL.

If it is already archived, you'll be able to open the archive copy.

If it is not, then you are given the option of causing it to be archived, and when done, you'll be given the archive url.

I keep a line of JavaScript as a bookmarklet to do this:

  javascript:void(open('http://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

or search (in the field at the bottom of the page) for previous HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34199303