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This is a bad title edit, if it was edited. The original title, "Safer Internet Day: Young ignore 'social media age limit'", at least focuses partially on the a
by tedks 11y ago
This is a bad title edit, if it was edited. The original title, "Safer Internet Day: Young ignore 'social media age limit'", at least focuses partially on the actual topic of the article, an event meant to raise awareness of online bullying. A better title edit would be "10-12 year olds report seeing, experiencing online bullying in spite of social media age limits".
But, you know what else puts youth at risk for bullying? Going outside. Going to school. Being different. Liking things other kids don't like. Being gay. Being black. Being asian. Etc..
Random trolls on the internet can do orders of magnitude less psychological damage to a kid than their actual peers can by excluding them from activities in the real world and making the state-mandated 9-5 they go to an experience they dread.
This sort of dominance behavior is likely a human evolutionary constant, but so are a lot of behaviors we've as a society decided are no longer acceptable. What will actually stop bullying is enforcing, across society and consistently in front of children, that it isn't acceptable to hurt other people to benefit yourself.
I'm sure virtually every educator knows this, because they're usually trained in child psychology. So if you see an "educator" saying that the thing we really need is an "internet safe zone" "for the children" you should know where their loyalties really lie.
- DanBC 11y ago> at least focuses partially on the actual topic of the article Yes, sorry. I thought people would read the article before commenting, and it seems a few people didn't bother doing that.