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I would not trust YouTube unattended with a child, I don't even trust television unattended with a child. Things like Netflix and home media servers are the wa
by iaw 9y ago
I would not trust YouTube unattended with a child, I don't even trust television unattended with a child.
Things like Netflix and home media servers are the way to go IMO.
- api 9y agoYouTube is definitely not okay to leave unattended with a child. I've seen auto-play cue up some disturbing and bizarre stuff, not to mention all the trolls who seem to delight in hiding things like slasher movie snippets in the middle of pirated kids videos.
- bluGill 9y agoEven attended. Things I'm perfectly fine with my kid seeing are often prefixed by ads that I cannot handle as an adult, much less kids.
- iaw 9y agoI know a strong sense of commercialism was imbued in me from an early age by watching targeted ads. I would not want to do that to any child, I don't think it's healthy.
- nhoe098nt 9y agoI don't know. I grew up the same way, and it really helped me become cynical about messages from media, which is a good thing. It's kind of like how European kids are allowed to drink alcohol, and they tend to not be as stupid with it as us Americans when they're in college. (Or so I'm told.)
- EADGBE 9y agoThey're just stupid with it in high school, right?
- jxramos 9y agoditto. Even searching on video platforms is a dicey operation. I remember seeing at a dental office this patient table's video screen turned away from the patient while the tech searched for "Leap Frog" videos, and in the prefix tree search landing on "lea.." hit some leather bondage trash. Then when the searching was complete the screen rotated back to the patient thereby sparing them the unpredictably inappropriate content that had to be navigated past.