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Could easily substitute Snapchat with Facebook, Instagram, any cell provider, etc. I don't see how this really ought to be news.
by jrs95 9y ago
Could easily substitute Snapchat with Facebook, Instagram, any cell provider, etc. I don't see how this really ought to be news.
- pwinnski 9y agoOn the contrary, the exploitation of children ought to be news every day that it's a problem. Snapchat is the focus here because it's better-suited to exploitation than the others you name as part of its design and marketing. But yes, there are also clearly issues outside of Snapchat as well.
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- bduerst 9y agoYeah the whole, "Everybody does it" minimizing argument isn't really valid here.
- mcgarnagle 9y agoI don't think it was an argument for the distribution of those photos. It was merely pointing out that punishing snapchat does not solve a societal problem. Instead you need to keep tracing this bug in the code of society and fix the root problem.
- tcd 9y agoHow do you propose fixing the problem? Not giving teens/kids smartphones is a sensible start, but that's not realistic, and they don't have the awareness (or the logical thing that screams "don't do this") developed yet. They're not technically aware of how the internet works (caches, archives, downloading media) and that images can stick around forever. people think snapchat images are 'deleted', yet that's not actually true, and can be intercepted/recorded anyway.
- spike021 9y ago>Not giving teens/kids smartphones is a sensible start, but that's not realistic I don't know, I got by just fine with a dumbphone through high school (beginning of the iPhone era). I don't think most teens need smartphones, honestly. But we've crossed the point where that matters.
- jrs95 9y agoEven dumbphones can do MMS, though.
- ashark 9y agoNo MMS without a data plan. Unless something's changed.
- spike021 9y agoyep, this, at least when I was at that age.
- vthriller 9y agoAnd in schools in my area J2ME-capable phone were actually so ubiquitous I already was a heavy user of things like Opera Mini, BombusMod (Jabber client), and MidpSSH—all that a decade ago, when prices were given for each megabyte of data transfer. But that was me, others were just sharing music and pictures through Bluetooth amongst themselves most of the time.
- davisdude 9y ago> I don't think most teens need smartphones, honestly. In today's schools, some teachers plan activities where students use their smart phones for specific projects, so this is becoming increasingly harder to do.
- spike021 9y agothat's utterly ridiculous. what about students who can't afford smartphones?