Now, do you all see why this conversation matters?
Another secondary school student is trending over a dance video that appears more focused on attracting attention than celebrating graduation, what does she mean by “LMETP”?
This isn’t about judging or humiliating a child.
It’s about asking why so many teenagers now believe that online attention is the fastest route to validation.
Why are children competing for attention instead of competing for knowledge and skills?
When did “going viral” become more valuable than protecting your future?
Are parents, schools, and society preparing children for life… or just leaving the algorithm to raise them?
The internet is a powerful classroom. It can teach coding, medicine, languages, business, and countless life-changing skills. But if we fail to guide young people, they’ll learn whatever gets the most engagement.
Every post creates a digital footprint. Universities, scholarship boards, employers, and even future partners may one day come across what is uploaded today.
Let’s stop rewarding every sensational moment with millions of views and start celebrating intelligence, creativity, innovation, sports, academics, entrepreneurship, and real talent.
To every young person reading this:
Please take good care of yourselves.
Protect your health, your dignity, your reputation, and your future.
Stay away from crime, harmful influences, and decisions that could close doors tomorrow.
These children are tomorrow’s doctors, nurses, lawyers, judges, engineers, scientists, and leaders. They deserve guidance, protection, and better role models… not pressure to chase online validation. And is this how this generation intend to produce them?
The internet isn’t the enemy. A lack of digital guidance is.
What do you think is the biggest reason more teenagers are seeking validation online today: poor parenting, social media algorithms, peer pressure, or society’s obsession with going viral?
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