If social media was made illegal for kids, how would that make you feel?
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angry. Stop expecting the state to raise your kids properly.
Some will be mature enough to handle it at 14. Some not until 24. (Some people never, lol)
Shouldn’t we say the same thing about alcohol and tobacco?
Just to butt in with my opinion: if you’re old enough to vote and old enough to join the military you should be old enough to drink and smoke.
Agreed, nostr:npub1zcljlywsdfrt289nff6gze7cy7cz0kfp2g36h090d86ecmxlczyqjk0c2l
nostr:npub1d3hrup0pe8f24c8dysc4gjh2gythrhvasyqh2wd0plvp3v3cnu5qhsfrtn , great point. That’s tough to consider. Before my first reply, I was actually considering what the downsides might be for illegal social media access for children. Maybe for <16 to start with a threshold. I actually believe there would be more good than bad to come of that. But then I got overwhelmed with how messy it is pick that magic age. I’m kinda torn upon reconsideration. But it’s a valuable talking point with how many teen and child lives it has destroyed.
Yeah it’s hard to set an age in stone for when the best time for children to get unfettered access to social media and the internet in general.
16 might be a good choice if you take into consideration that they’re mature enough to get a driver’s license in many states.
I’d be ok with it. I think there is a lot of negative influences for kids on social media. A lot of creeps too.
This thought came about as I was thinking about the media i consumed when I was young. I’m a big fan of horror, and the darkest media I could find was going to the local library to take out a Stephen king book.. young kids now have unlimited access. There’s no trip to the library or trying to sneak on your parents X-rated channel. I ask myself if I would be healthy if I was a kid now with what I consumed and I don’t think I would be. Parents can’t parent if they wanted to when the government doesn’t do it’s job - ensure domestic tranquility. https://video.nostr.build/a4047e53e6b1f5339012558ac8c1016cf14423fc85f6ec6981004bb586b04542.mov
It’s hard to imagine I would’ve been if we had all the access to stuff we have now as a kid. Back then I would’ve probably been an easy target for social media as an introvert with few friends. Luckily I guess we didn’t get a computer until I was almost out of high school and even then with dial up you could barely do anything anyway.
tbf parents have tech and wifi controls to gatekeep unlimited, unsupervised access. But they’re probably not layman friendly or widespread enough
There are some really good solutions for it. You can block sites in the router or if your savvy enough set up a pi-hole but yeah maybe that’s too much for a lot of people.
Sometimes tech people forget that a lot of people aren’t capable or interested in learning how to do that kind of thing.
The market currently offers friendlier solutions than that actually. Some parental control apps are:
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No issue with it , they don't have the mental capacity to grow mentally let alone balance social media.