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Even if parents tried to be fully responsible for keeping their kids off social media, it wouldn't actually be possible for them. What you are proposing is aki

Even if parents tried to be fully responsible for keeping their kids off social media, it wouldn't actually be possible for them. What you are proposing is akin to a world in which it is wholly the responsibility of parents to stop their kids from smoking cigarettes and drinking liquor, but whenever the parents weren't around kids could walk into a store and buy them legally. Do you expect 24/7 unceasing parental surveillance? Get real. And as for technological means of surveillance and content control, parents here on HN struggle to make that work. The average parent with average tech skills stands virtually no chance of making it work. Kids have been known to do things like get old phones from somebody in school and use it on the neighbor's wifi. Trying to control their devices and access to the internet is basically impossible.

Funes- 3y ago
>What you are proposing I did not propose any of the straw-man nonsense that you wrote after this. Nothing in my previous comment implies such a thing. Come on, now.
- wwweston 3y ago
  Come on yourself. > Just look at everyone in this thread opting for letting their kids cave in to peer pressure and dodging responsibility for their upbringing It’s entirely reasonable to read this as implying that a key issue is parental management of access to social media. And it might even be reasonable to assume you don’t actually care about this topic at levels beyond the self-gratification that comes from assuming a posture of easy contempt, given that’s the majority of what you’re offering by weight.
maerF0x0 3y ago
> keeping their kids off social media, it wouldn't actually be possible for them. This is false binary thinking. I would argue that effortful attempts by parents would meaningfully reduce their kids social media usage. Social medias negative effects is a spectrum/sliding scale of effect based on amount of exposure. Even if they cannot entirely keep their kids off social media, they can dampen the usage. Think about alcohol, as a society we focus on keeping kids off alcohol and in the main it works (until we give them free and full access and they experimentally binge, but most regain selfcontrol in short order).

Funes- 3y ago

>What you are proposing I did not propose any of the straw-man nonsense that you wrote after this. Nothing in my previous comment implies such a thing. Come on, now.

wwweston 3y ago
Come on yourself. > Just look at everyone in this thread opting for letting their kids cave in to peer pressure and dodging responsibility for their upbringing It’s entirely reasonable to read this as implying that a key issue is parental management of access to social media. And it might even be reasonable to assume you don’t actually care about this topic at levels beyond the self-gratification that comes from assuming a posture of easy contempt, given that’s the majority of what you’re offering by weight.

maerF0x0 3y ago

> keeping their kids off social media, it wouldn't actually be possible for them. This is false binary thinking. I would argue that effortful attempts by parents would meaningfully reduce their kids social media usage. Social medias negative effects is a spectrum/sliding scale of effect based on amount of exposure. Even if they cannot entirely keep their kids off social media, they can dampen the usage. Think about alcohol, as a society we focus on keeping kids off alcohol and in the main it works (until we give them free and full access and they experimentally binge, but most regain selfcontrol in short order).