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Yes and no. If you keep your kid off of these social media sites (a) you're going to fight about it Every. Single. Day. For. Years. and (b) they're going to get
by cjohnson318 2y ago
Yes and no. If you keep your kid off of these social media sites (a) you're going to fight about it Every. Single. Day. For. Years. and (b) they're going to get on them with burner accounts/devices anyway. Where will they get a burner phone? From any other kid at school that gets a new phone, and wants $20. The whole situation is psychotic. Even without social media there's horror stories from the "local media" of AirDrop and group texts.
- foobarian 2y agoI discovered that my kid's peer group shares screen recordings via imessage chats to get around being offline or running out of time limit on the source apps (youtube, etc.). I kind of like the resourcefulness tbh.
- squigz 2y agoThis is another good point that seems to fly under the radar - putting aside the implications for free society for a moment, even if we were to implement legislation regarding the use of social media, rest assured, kids will find a way around it if they want to - much like with drugs.
- cjohnson318 2y agoYeah, there's no winning. I think there's a happy medium, like Fail Whale Twitter, where you can have social media that doesn't drag you into a short video loop for an hour or more, but that model doesn't seem to be commercially viable.
- rescbr 2y agoHah! That's ingenious. Back in the middle school days, decades ago, I was running proxies on free PHP hosting services to avoid content restriction on school computers. Learned more from my shenanigans than from the computer lab classes :)
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