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How old were you when you gained access to the family computer? How old were you when you gained access to the internet? Personally I think the educational ad
by uuddlrlrbaba 2y ago
How old were you when you gained access to the family computer?
How old were you when you gained access to the internet?
Personally I think the educational advantage that a tablet or phone can provide is too quickly overlooked. People assume phone or tablet equals bad with black/white thinking. Sure it can be used to scroll junk mindlessly (although this would be blocked from a child account).
It also can be used to playback educational content with subtitles enabled. Kids can learn languages, math, puzzle solving, all sorts of things. A time limit can be enforced on it too.
TikTok at its core is a mechanism to share information directly between parties. If you allow your kids on there, and what they are allowed to do there, is up to you as a parent. I will say there is a STEM section that can be enabled, and I'm not personally opposed to it.
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- drawkward 2y agoprobably around 12-13 in both cases, but this was about 30 years ago, when the web was nascent and did not learn from you, how to addict you.
- rescbr 2y agoI had my own computer in my room when I was 9 or 10 or so. Internet access was mostly restricted as it made the single phone line busy and for a long time the ISP plan my father had was limited with only a few hours allowance. There were absolutely no filters and my parents didn't watch what I was doing. They just hammered in my mind that nobody in the Internet should be trusted, and absolutely no real names, no photos and no addresses. Stranger danger. By the time I had access to a broadband always-on connection, this was already set in my mind. Only years later that people thought that putting their real names and pictures on the book of faces would be cool.