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My kid is 7. He has a Linux desktop he can use whenever he wants with no internet access from his user account. My wife and I abandoned all social media and we’
by nkrisc 2y ago
My kid is 7. He has a Linux desktop he can use whenever he wants with no internet access from his user account. My wife and I abandoned all social media and we’ll probably get him a dumb phone when the time comes.
I’ve heard the stuff some of his friends with more internet permissive parents parrot from YouTube and stuff and honestly it’s frightening.
As for the good stuff that’s actually out there, I download for consumption offline.
As someone who grew up in the 90s and learned touch type playing StarCraft online, the internet is not for kids.
- winterbloom 2y agoIf you do that, your kid won't fit in and will be a social outcast
- toomuchtodo 2y agoBut at least they’ll be functional with a potentially positive trajectory vs their peers.
- threeseed 2y agoHumans especially children need to be part of healthy social groups. Being excluded is not setting them up on a positive trajectory.
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- cortesoft 2y agoSocial skills are probably the most important and valuable skills to success in life
- AlexandrB 2y agoSocial media and staring at a screen destroy social skills. I know, I lived through 2 years of COVID.
- throawayonthe 2y ago[dead]
- eitally 2y agoYou may think this now but maybe wait until your kid is in middle or high school. Adolescent life is coordinated online now, and you will literally be handicapping your kid if you take a hard line.
- djbusby 2y agoIf my kid has my social skills it's guaranteed - with or without social media.
- otterley 2y agoAre there studies of the long term consequences to children resulting from not giving them a smartphone or access to popular social media?
- gitaarik 2y agoSo either your kid gets infected by other kids, or it becomes a social outcast. Seems both are equality bad, I would even lean towards saying social outcast is less worse than being infected.
- nkrisc 2y agoThank you for the parenting advice, anonymous stranger.
- Wowfunhappy 2y ago> My wife and I abandoned all social media ...I'm sorry, I have to point out, you're posting this on what is basically a social media site.
- cjonas 2y agoIt's not an advanced algorithmic feed designed with the sole intent to consume as much of you attention as possible...
- knighthack 2y agoI wouldn't classify Hacker News as 'social media' per se. Hacker News does not have the feed-driven approach of other social media that is designed to generate addiction/engagement amongst users; we just like to talk about fun stuff. Hacker News is more of an old-school forum, where we talk about topics, rather than being a true 'social media' experience where you can talk about anything/yourself as a topic. Moreover, the average baseline of discussions here is much higher and more intellectually-driven than discussions on X, IG, FB, and so on. That makes it keenly distinct from other social media designed for more base discussions.
- politelemon 2y agoThat's a property of some kinds of social media. Not a definition or negation of. The most amusing thing is that discussions on reddit, tumblr, x, etc include the very same kind of denials that gp comment is eliciting regarding those sites being social media. Social media includes content sharing, discussions, and echo chambers, all of which are present here in abundance. Certain content gets promoted over others, and each site assumes see itself above others.
- asdf000333 2y agoWhat originally set social media apart from forums was that you interact with people you sorta know. Social media apps later drifted to something else, but they still aren't forums. HN is a forum.
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