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> How do you prevent kids using social media without 100% surveillance or not allowing internet access at all? I don't give them a phone, and all the screens i
by aliasxneo 2y ago
> How do you prevent kids using social media without 100% surveillance or not allowing internet access at all?
I don't give them a phone, and all the screens in my house are in the shared living space. They also don't know the WiFi password, should they try to sneak in a device.
Could they use a friend's phone? Sure. I'm not really concerned in that case, because there's honestly nothing I can do, but it's such minimal exposure with a huge barrier that I doubt it's effectiveness in sustaining much addiction.
- croes 2y agoWhat’s the age range we are talking about? No phone is impossible when school requires one.
- dannyphantom 2y agoApple and Google Play both have 'Parental Controls' that restricts what is accessible across most of the device. The underlying functionality is there. Parents just don't leverage it at-scale. If a school provides a smartphone, it would be on IT to prevent misuse by students by using MDM. If a parent provides the phone, then we circle back to the 'Parental Controls' that are available. Apple, Parental Controls: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105121 https://support.apple.com/en-us/105121 Apple, MDM: https://www.apple.com/education/k12/deploy-and-manage/ https://www.apple.com/education/k12/deploy-and-manage/ Google Play, Parental Controls: https://safety.google/intl/en_us/families/parental-supervision/ https://safety.google/intl/en_us/families/parental-supervisi... Google Play, MDM: https://support.google.com/googleplay/work/answer/7042221?hl=en https://support.google.com/googleplay/work/answer/7042221?hl...
- aliasxneo 2y agoAges 5-12. This is the first time I've heard of phones being required in school. Our district is trying to ban them.