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.
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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: