My kids are 10 and 7. I'm dreading social media.
Already the 10 year old is in the minority at School as she doesn't have a phone. One of her mates turned up at ours aged 9 for a sleepover with 2 phones and an iPad.
Part of me feels bad/guilty when others are flashing phones about infront of her and I can see the look on her face.
We will give her a phone when she goes to High School, so we know where she is etc. Then comes all the crap that comes with it.
Sounds good but just looked and GABB phones don't seem to be available in the UK?You can get phones that look like smart phones, are touch screen etc. but don't have internet access and wont allow social media. That's all I'll be allowing my daughter to have when she gets to high school and she has been made aware of that over the last few years along with the reasons why.
https://gabb.com/gabb-phone-4/
The best thing that can be done for humanity is to ban social media full stop.
There's some negatives in social media, but there's also a load of positives. A ban seems ridiculous.
Yes it seems ridiculous.A ban for children seems ridiculous?
There’s endless videos of beatings, stabbings, Sex/Nude clips, fake staged videos, AI fake videos and more that comes with social media when you scroll through the videos among your favourite Pop band, football team and other interests , You would be ok with your children seeing all that ?
A ban for children seems ridiculous?
There’s endless videos of beatings, stabbings, Sex/Nude clips, fake staged videos, AI fake videos and more that comes with social media when you scroll through the videos among your favourite Pop band, football team and other interests , You would be ok with your children seeing all that ?
Links ?A ban for children seems ridiculous?
There’s endless videos of beatings, stabbings, Sex/Nude clips, fake staged videos, AI fake videos and more that comes with social media when you scroll through the videos among your favourite Pop band, football team and other interests , You would be ok with your children seeing all that ?
The other month I was on a work assignment down south with one of my younger colleagues. We were staying in an AirBnb and he left his phone with a tiktok video playing on loop. I almost launched it out of the window. The worst is when you're on public transport and someone selfishly plays video after video at a high volume.Tiktok is worst. You can sit for hours watching short content turning you into a zombie. It's even worse than TV because it is available everywhere at any time and the content is sub complex.
It's not about the content itself mostly, it's how how it is presented and available and what that does to kids' brains.
Well if science has done the research then who are we to argue with their findings.Science proved that extensive Social Media consumption does big and irreparable brain damage.
Aww, diddums.That could work but from the point of view of the social media companies you are creating a significant barrier to access which will damage their business model.
I would honestly just make them legally responsible for everything that appears on their site. The most egregious example is actually Pornhub, which was entirely built on the systematic theft of other people's content. But I remember reading a story about how difficult the victims of revenge porn (some underage) found it to get videos of themselves permanently removed from the site. They would report it, it would get removed, only for an identical video to be reuploaded a few days later. As far as I'm concerned, the people in charge of Pornhub are guilty of publishing child porn on an industrial scale and should be in prison, and yet they get away with it by showing that they have 'systems in place' to remove it. These systems are of course the bare minimum, involving as few human staff as possible to maximize profits. There's no requirement to check in advance that the uploader both owns the content and can verify the age of the performers, for example. I'm sure that would have been a basic requirement of anyone selling DVDs back in the day, but put it on a website, and we act like all the rules change.The best thing that can be done for humanity is to ban social media full stop.
You at least need an actual argument, don't you? These studies are published and reviewed. The brain damage with still developing brains of kids and young adults was measured. You can't just push this away.Well if science has done the research then who are we to argue with their findings.