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For me, any child below 15 years has no business with social media...social media is highly distractive, even to adult ...the shud be a regulation restricting c

For me, any child below 15 years has no business with social media...social media is highly distractive, even to adult ...the shud be a regulation restricting children from social media

OneGuy123 6y ago
This might protect children for a while but sooner or later they will become addicted to it. We will have to modify/add this to our educational system, there is no other way around it or parents will have to teach children this themselves (which is problematic since adults themselves are also addicated so we are missing a huge part of the puzzle of how the mind truly works). A lof of adults think they are not addicted to twitter/facebook/hackernews but they somehow magicaly find themselves browing hackernews and facebook "suddenly and for no reason at all". This seems to be one of the few books that actually works in practice: it is about porn addiction but it seems to be applicable to social media addication also. https://easypeasymethod.org/index.html https://easypeasymethod.org/index.html
- andrepd 6y ago
  Skimmed through that book, it sounds like complete hogwash. Masturbation is evil + pseudoscience + "just quit bro".
choeger 6y ago
I wouldn't have a problem with social media per se for my kids. It's the sheer size of the population that concerns me. In most "normal" situations, parents can identify their children's contacts quickly and they can observe the black sheep closely and in the worst case try to prevent any further contact. In social media, the weirdest and worst people are just a click away and you won't even notice it. Right now, there probably is a new trend or group out there that is extremely dangerous, or outright criminal and I don't even recognize it.
- ComputerGuru 6y ago
  Ok, so you aren’t fine with social media, given that this isn’t something you can control. It sounds like “I’m fine with it, just not any of it’s bad sides.”
  - __s 6y ago
    The problem is "social media" casts a wide net. Social media use to be friends & friends of friends. It's evolved to recommended content feeds
    - thegreatpeter 6y ago
      But it’s not that anymore so you’re not fine with it, right?
  - choeger 6y ago
    So if one is not 100% fine with everything that follows that means they must reject it? Weird world view. So I have to reject cars because of their negative effect in dense urban areas? I have to reject alcohol at all or be fine with alcoholism?
    - Fargren 6y ago
      The issue is that you said what bothers you about social media is "the sheer size of the population", but I would say the size of the population is what makes it social media. It's akin to saying I like cars except for the fact they move faster than a person. You could technically have something called social media that has low populations, but it would be so functionally different from the actual thing that using the same name becomes questionable.
      - curryst 6y ago
        > You could technically have something called social media that has low populations, but it would be so functionally different from the actual thing that using the same name becomes questionable. It would basically be OG Facebook, which was a pivotal point in the development of social media. Facebook pivoted to focus on massive populations where everyone interacted with everyone, instead of the small subset of people you actually know. Perhaps I'm alone in this experience, but social media in 2021 is vastly different in both form and function to social media in 2011. I'm not making a value judgement on which is better, but the two things barely resemble each other to me.
intrasight 6y ago
I partially credit my daughter's great concentration abilities with not having much exposure to social media until high school.
watwut 6y ago
Yeah, complete social isolation from peers during pandemic is much better plan. This ship sailed before covid already. But with covit, it is online discussion or nothing.
canadianfella 6y ago
English?

For me, any child below 15 years has no business with social media...social media is highly distractive, even to adult ...the shud be a regulation restricting children from social media

OneGuy123 6y ago

This might protect children for a while but sooner or later they will become addicted to it. We will have to modify/add this to our educational system, there is no other way around it or parents will have to teach children this themselves (which is problematic since adults themselves are also addicated so we are missing a huge part of the puzzle of how the mind truly works). A lof of adults think they are not addicted to twitter/facebook/hackernews but they somehow magicaly find themselves browing hackernews and facebook "suddenly and for no reason at all". This seems to be one of the few books that actually works in practice: it is about porn addiction but it seems to be applicable to social media addication also. https://easypeasymethod.org/index.html https://easypeasymethod.org/index.html

andrepd 6y ago
Skimmed through that book, it sounds like complete hogwash. Masturbation is evil + pseudoscience + "just quit bro".

choeger 6y ago

I wouldn't have a problem with social media per se for my kids. It's the sheer size of the population that concerns me. In most "normal" situations, parents can identify their children's contacts quickly and they can observe the black sheep closely and in the worst case try to prevent any further contact. In social media, the weirdest and worst people are just a click away and you won't even notice it. Right now, there probably is a new trend or group out there that is extremely dangerous, or outright criminal and I don't even recognize it.

ComputerGuru 6y ago
Ok, so you aren’t fine with social media, given that this isn’t something you can control. It sounds like “I’m fine with it, just not any of it’s bad sides.”
- __s 6y ago
  The problem is "social media" casts a wide net. Social media use to be friends & friends of friends. It's evolved to recommended content feeds
  - thegreatpeter 6y ago
    But it’s not that anymore so you’re not fine with it, right?
- choeger 6y ago
  So if one is not 100% fine with everything that follows that means they must reject it? Weird world view. So I have to reject cars because of their negative effect in dense urban areas? I have to reject alcohol at all or be fine with alcoholism?
  - Fargren 6y ago
    The issue is that you said what bothers you about social media is "the sheer size of the population", but I would say the size of the population is what makes it social media. It's akin to saying I like cars except for the fact they move faster than a person. You could technically have something called social media that has low populations, but it would be so functionally different from the actual thing that using the same name becomes questionable.
    - curryst 6y ago
      > You could technically have something called social media that has low populations, but it would be so functionally different from the actual thing that using the same name becomes questionable. It would basically be OG Facebook, which was a pivotal point in the development of social media. Facebook pivoted to focus on massive populations where everyone interacted with everyone, instead of the small subset of people you actually know. Perhaps I'm alone in this experience, but social media in 2021 is vastly different in both form and function to social media in 2011. I'm not making a value judgement on which is better, but the two things barely resemble each other to me.

intrasight 6y ago

I partially credit my daughter's great concentration abilities with not having much exposure to social media until high school.

watwut 6y ago

Yeah, complete social isolation from peers during pandemic is much better plan. This ship sailed before covid already. But with covit, it is online discussion or nothing.

canadianfella 6y ago

English?