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> I find it really sad that we no longer hold parents and communities responsible for just not. letting. their. kids. on. the. internet. As a parent, I'm willi

> I find it really sad that we no longer hold parents and communities responsible for just not. letting. their. kids. on. the. internet. As a parent, I'm willing to take all the blame in the world for letting my kid on the internet if you're willing to live with no internet for 10 years. Should be simple enough, right ? Oh, I'll help you find what you need anytime, just tell me what to search for and I'll print and send you the results whenever I have some spare time. Kids are supposed to become adults, and for that they need to actually interact with the actual workd, do adulty things and process the reality. It's a delusion to think you can live in a school shaped faraday cage for 10+ years and just become a balanced and productive member of the society when the door unlocks at 18.

93po 3y ago
I did live with no internet for 10 years as a kid. I turned out perfectly fine and now have a successful career in software. If I had all my living expenses paid for, didn't have to work, and basically just got to learn all day, I'd love to leave the internet behind for a decade.
- makeitdouble 3y ago
  > If I had all my living expenses paid for, didn't have to work, and basically just got to learn all day, I'd love to leave the internet behind for a decade. Of course not. You're still working, keep a computer at work with all the filtering and surveillance coming with it (just like kids have internet access at school), but no access outside that. You pay your bills at the counter, buy everything in brick and mortar, short of asking me to order them for you online. This is how it feels to have a 12yo kid needing a new backpack, or looking for a new game, but they can't just go to the store because brick and mortar stores just became ridiculously limited if they still even exist, and looking for it online means having your parents over your shoulders with very limited time and nowhere to ask online, because you're not the age that is allowed to talk to people yet. PS: it's a really good exercice to imagine leaving your teenage life now, with or without internet. The gap between what we remember being kids, and what it actually feels like right now is pretty eye opening. As adults we remodeled a lot of our life around the internet, but many still assume kids live in the 80's worlds.

93po 3y ago

I did live with no internet for 10 years as a kid. I turned out perfectly fine and now have a successful career in software. If I had all my living expenses paid for, didn't have to work, and basically just got to learn all day, I'd love to leave the internet behind for a decade.

makeitdouble 3y ago
> If I had all my living expenses paid for, didn't have to work, and basically just got to learn all day, I'd love to leave the internet behind for a decade. Of course not. You're still working, keep a computer at work with all the filtering and surveillance coming with it (just like kids have internet access at school), but no access outside that. You pay your bills at the counter, buy everything in brick and mortar, short of asking me to order them for you online. This is how it feels to have a 12yo kid needing a new backpack, or looking for a new game, but they can't just go to the store because brick and mortar stores just became ridiculously limited if they still even exist, and looking for it online means having your parents over your shoulders with very limited time and nowhere to ask online, because you're not the age that is allowed to talk to people yet. PS: it's a really good exercice to imagine leaving your teenage life now, with or without internet. The gap between what we remember being kids, and what it actually feels like right now is pretty eye opening. As adults we remodeled a lot of our life around the internet, but many still assume kids live in the 80's worlds.