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I'm old enough to have gone through this about the internet and literate enough to have read about every other time this happened back to the invention of writi
by ctrw 2y ago
I'm old enough to have gone through this about the internet and literate enough to have read about every other time this happened back to the invention of writing which was meant to turn us all into imbeciles according to Socrates.
Leave the kids alone. They will figure it out.
- 082349872349872 2y ago> As middle-aged folk identify the problems with the social networks they grew up with, youngsters may already be moving on. One of my proudest parenting moments was discovering that a child had independently realised that their online presences ought to be multiple and not trivially correlated.
- 31337Logic 2y agoA better, prouder moment, for all involved, would be not that the child arrived at this marvelous conclusion "independently", for that outcome (by your admission) is quite rare. Else, it would not be remarkable enough for you to comment. Instead, we want to arm our children with the tools so that they arrive at that same conclusion repeatedly and predictably. Better yet, we would all do better if we simply eliminate such harmful algorithms and creepy practices entirely.
- 082349872349872 2y agoWhen I was a child, print media was a thing and so MAD magazine armed me with the tools for surviving in the world. What's the current equivalent?
- 31337Logic 2y agoThank you. Same here. ;-)
- 29athrowaway 2y agoWrong. The Internet today is not the same as the one you grew up in. If what you seek is virtue, you will find virtue. If what you seek is vice, you will find vice. If what you wanted is learning you could find everything you wanted to learn. But if you have problems the Internet can make them much worse. And the Internet of today is much less forgiving. There is no real anonimity now.
- namaria 2y agoA lot of the "this has happened since the dawn of time" falls apart when you remember we have created in the past 30 years technologies that have never existed and are changing the nature of civilization.
- ctrw 2y agoWhen you have cried wolf dozens of times 'this time it's different' isn't.
- namaria 2y agoYour example is spurious. Writing had existed for 2 thousand years when it reached archaic Greece. It had existed in Mycenean Greece almost a thousand years before and been forgotten. A Greek decrying "youth these days rely too much on writing" was already an empty worry from the experience of almost 100 generations. Touchscreens, smartphones and the Internet are a few decades old at most and no one knows the long term impact of them on civilization or the youth. Pretending it's the same is bad reasoning.