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> a number of parents not savvy enough I’m sure this is probably a thing overall, but I also distinctly remember some extremely tech savvy friends, people maki

by biztos 6y ago

> a number of parents not savvy enough I’m sure this is probably a thing overall, but I also distinctly remember some extremely tech savvy friends, people making their livings in tech from the 90’s, using iPhone with games and YouTube as an opium stick whenever their 7-10 year olds wouldn’t sit still in public. They fought about it, so maybe it was a cultural thing, but it definitely wasn’t because they didn’t understand the mechanics of adtech. I also have super techno-illiterate friends whose teenage son spends maybe an hour a day online. I don’t pretend to know the parenting solution but my anecdata suggests the tech-savvy parents are not automatically better at this than their less-teched counterparts.

brightball 6y ago
Oh, even as cautious as I am, letting a small child have a tablet for a few minutes so you can have a peaceful dinner conversation is absolutely a tradeoff I'd be willing to make now and then.
- boringg 6y ago
  I don't know you start to mess with their dopamine loops at that point.
jka 6y ago
This is the nature of an addictive technology that has an influence on peer groups. If it's flashy, exciting, looks cool - other children are going to want to have the same thing too. In a situation like that, even if your own preference is to have a quiet, slow existence for your family -- and even if that's what other families want too -- the environment has been altered by this external factor. Adults aren't immune to these kind of peer effects either, to be honest - but it's particularly pathetic for multi-billion dollar companies to intentionally market towards children with the hope of holding on to their attention and customer data.
steve_adams_86 6y ago
I agree completely. There is probably no shortage of tech savvy parents out there who don’t care to apply their understanding to furthering their parenting. All of that takes real work and consideration, which is fundamentally just good parenting. That doesn’t come as part of the tech package - tech prowess is just a convenient asset to apply to problems.

by biztos 6y ago

brightball 6y ago

Oh, even as cautious as I am, letting a small child have a tablet for a few minutes so you can have a peaceful dinner conversation is absolutely a tradeoff I'd be willing to make now and then.

boringg 6y ago
I don't know you start to mess with their dopamine loops at that point.

jka 6y ago

This is the nature of an addictive technology that has an influence on peer groups. If it's flashy, exciting, looks cool - other children are going to want to have the same thing too. In a situation like that, even if your own preference is to have a quiet, slow existence for your family -- and even if that's what other families want too -- the environment has been altered by this external factor. Adults aren't immune to these kind of peer effects either, to be honest - but it's particularly pathetic for multi-billion dollar companies to intentionally market towards children with the hope of holding on to their attention and customer data.

steve_adams_86 6y ago

I agree completely. There is probably no shortage of tech savvy parents out there who don’t care to apply their understanding to furthering their parenting. All of that takes real work and consideration, which is fundamentally just good parenting. That doesn’t come as part of the tech package - tech prowess is just a convenient asset to apply to problems.