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Adding a couple more articles I have come across this month on social networks and their unthought-out consequences. We are so unprepared to deal with all this

• serpentor 11y ago
  But, of course, no one questions the possibility of, like, you know, not letting kids use cell phones in school. Or maybe not letting kids use any form of digital camera, at all, ever? Is that actually impossible? Or just unreasonable? Or, like, what if the reality is that taking a picture of your own nude body is not actually a crime? What if images of human nudity simply weren't criminalized? A bridge too far?
  • bsder 11y ago
    > But, of course, no one questions the possibility of, like, you know, not letting kids use cell phones in school. That probably wouldn't have helped. I doubt they were taking the pictures at school. > Or maybe not letting kids use any form of digital camera, at all, ever? Is that actually impossible? At this point, probably. You certainly would destroy your child's social life. The bigger problem is parents not knowing what the hell their kids are doing. This is rather simple: "Yes, I'm going to have all of your passwords and occasionally I'm randomly going to take your phone to check every single app on your phone and computer. And you will unlock them, or you are grounded and won't have a phone. Ever. No, you don't get a choice in this. If you don't want me seeing it you probably shouldn't be doing it."
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• bsder 11y ago
  > We are so unprepared to deal with all this shit. We have always been unprepared to deal with this shit. The social stuff making it exponential means we just can't ignore it anymore. Very few people have excellent memories of high school even before ubiquitous social apps. I also love the investigating "whether children were bullied into participating". Um, duh. But most of it was social coercion with a side of physical threat rather than actual violence, so nobody will be prosecuted. High school is prison, but without its benefits.