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> Children, specifically. I fail to see how this is supposed to make it in any way worse.

MBCook 8y ago
Children don’t have fully developed minds, can’t appreciate the consequences of their actions (especially in the long term) and are easy to manipulate with bribes ($20/mo). This isn’t a bunch of adults deciding to sell their privacy. It’s children who have no hope of understanding what they’re doing.
- bepvte 8y ago
  I doubt many of these kids understand that full conversations in most messaging apps can be viewed by a facebook employee with this installed
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
  To be fair, you could replace the word children with the word adult in your first paragraph and it would all still hold. Adults might have fully developed brains from a biology perspective, and I recognise this is what you meant, but I believe there is a strong argument to be made that many adults, myself included, are heavily lacking in the development of mind department. Mark Zuckerberg surely is, either that or he’s actually Satan. I definitely have an undeveloped appreciation of the consequences of my actions, and I’m easily manipulated. I’m rapidly approaching 40 laps around the sun! My greater point here is that I don’t find your argument for why it’s worse because children particularly compelling. Or, perhaps, insufficient. So I’ll replace with my own: Society at large has a long history of, and a cultural and biological evolutionary adaptation, to protect children more strongly than adults, because we are born vulnerable and take a long time to reach sexual reproductive age. We’ve only made it this far because we’re not descended from parents who let their kids stumble in to sabretooth tiger territory. (As an aside, I appreciate that the greatest threat to children’s health and development is their immediate family. But here we are). The worrying thing is, now the sabretooth tiger is a guy who’s surname translates from the mother tongue, German, to English as candy mountain, Google translate actually says “pile of sugar”, and comes with a family friendly large blue thumbs up symbol. So the threat is difficult to discern. I’d actually be more worried if I didn’t have a seizure like laughing fit every time I think about the whole scenario. It’s a coping mechanism I guess. I mean, is this really happening? I wish Bill Hicks was still alive! Aaah, he lives on through those who carry the flame!
zapzupnz 8y ago
Hi Zuck. But on a more serious note, children don't necessarily understand the consequence of their actions, especially at a technical level. Mind you, plenty of adults don't either, but their acceptance of the terms of conditions of something or other is contingent on their being responsible enough to accept any negative consequences that may come; children are not in that position.
socrates1998 8y ago
What the hell is wrong with you? Children don't know what they are doing. That's why they aren't allowed to gamble among a multitude of other things that their developing brains can't handle.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
  This is the correct answer. A culture that doesn’t have a strong child-protective drive, and a strong drive toward kindness and treading lightly, is likely to disintegrate and eventually destroy the each other and the world. As evidence I present: the current state of affairs!

Children don’t have fully developed minds, can’t appreciate the consequences of their actions (especially in the long term) and are easy to manipulate with bribes ($20/mo). This isn’t a bunch of adults deciding to sell their privacy. It’s children who have no hope of understanding what they’re doing.

bepvte 8y ago
I doubt many of these kids understand that full conversations in most messaging apps can be viewed by a facebook employee with this installed
TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
To be fair, you could replace the word children with the word adult in your first paragraph and it would all still hold. Adults might have fully developed brains from a biology perspective, and I recognise this is what you meant, but I believe there is a strong argument to be made that many adults, myself included, are heavily lacking in the development of mind department. Mark Zuckerberg surely is, either that or he’s actually Satan. I definitely have an undeveloped appreciation of the consequences of my actions, and I’m easily manipulated. I’m rapidly approaching 40 laps around the sun! My greater point here is that I don’t find your argument for why it’s worse because children particularly compelling. Or, perhaps, insufficient. So I’ll replace with my own: Society at large has a long history of, and a cultural and biological evolutionary adaptation, to protect children more strongly than adults, because we are born vulnerable and take a long time to reach sexual reproductive age. We’ve only made it this far because we’re not descended from parents who let their kids stumble in to sabretooth tiger territory. (As an aside, I appreciate that the greatest threat to children’s health and development is their immediate family. But here we are). The worrying thing is, now the sabretooth tiger is a guy who’s surname translates from the mother tongue, German, to English as candy mountain, Google translate actually says “pile of sugar”, and comes with a family friendly large blue thumbs up symbol. So the threat is difficult to discern. I’d actually be more worried if I didn’t have a seizure like laughing fit every time I think about the whole scenario. It’s a coping mechanism I guess. I mean, is this really happening? I wish Bill Hicks was still alive! Aaah, he lives on through those who carry the flame!

zapzupnz 8y ago

Hi Zuck. But on a more serious note, children don't necessarily understand the consequence of their actions, especially at a technical level. Mind you, plenty of adults don't either, but their acceptance of the terms of conditions of something or other is contingent on their being responsible enough to accept any negative consequences that may come; children are not in that position.

socrates1998 8y ago

What the hell is wrong with you? Children don't know what they are doing. That's why they aren't allowed to gamble among a multitude of other things that their developing brains can't handle.

TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
This is the correct answer. A culture that doesn’t have a strong child-protective drive, and a strong drive toward kindness and treading lightly, is likely to disintegrate and eventually destroy the each other and the world. As evidence I present: the current state of affairs!