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Or, one could consider the crazy option of letting parents exercise at least some modicum of decision-making on how their children live their lives. I can under
by southernplaces7 4y ago
Or, one could consider the crazy option of letting parents exercise at least some modicum of decision-making on how their children live their lives. I can understand much of the disgust with social media as it is today, but some of these arguments spin off so far into emotional reactionary vitriol that they lose whole forests for meager trees about the larger dangers of laws deciding such minutia for parents.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoTry making the decision that your child will not use social media and watch what happens.
- southernplaces7 4y agoPlenty of people do indeed pull it off, and before that heavy handed step, there are others that on a parental level (not by government decree), moderate the effects and use of social media for their children without relying on blanket bans in a society that seems to view even very basic freedoms as ever more maleable things. The underlying logic of blanket social media bans is awful, and so is the enormous leeway they open for government control of information and expression in so many other ways. This entire proposal is obviously grotesque, that so many people on a site like this don't see that just because they happen to hate Facebook et al in many ways (I myself do too) is absurd.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoAm doing it now. Prepare for constant complaints and sob-stories, everyone around you including the school doing their best to undermine you. Adults aren't included. We prohibit kids from doing many dangerous things, as we should.
- JenrHywy 4y agoWe have. So far it has been fine. Mind you it has only been relevant to our introverted sons so far. Might be harder for our daughter in a few years.