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Balancing screen time seems doable and makes sense but the social media bit seems basically impossible. I have yet to encounter a kid with a smart phone that w
by voidhorse 3y ago
Balancing screen time seems doable and makes sense but the social media bit seems basically impossible.
I have yet to encounter a kid with a smart phone that wasn't using it to view stuff on tiktok or youtube.
- colecut 3y agoYes there is some social activity on YouTube but I have trouble thinking of it as "social media" in the Facebook/Instagram sense..
- voidhorse 3y agoTrue, but I personally feel it's just as potentially damaging to the psyche, if not more so, in certain ways. Your kid starts watching minecraft let plays and next thing you know one of the lets players grifts for some neo-nazi or mysogynist and your kid has a bunch of bad ideas flowing into their head...
- parasubvert 3y agoMy kid watches youtube but i track his history. it's generally harmless gaming stuff from creators i don't worry about too much. he doesn't use any social media otherwise (a bit of discord for gaming, that's it).
- elzbardico 3y agoit's pretty easy to use parental controls to block such apps.
- voidhorse 3y agoYeah, but "easy" is relative. A lot of people out there really only know how to use their phone to browse social media. This doesn't stop them from becoming parents.
- elzbardico 3y agowell, organizing an educational campaign and using activism to pressure the industry shouldn't be much harder than organizing this campaign for what is essentially a temperance pledge.