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My parents didn’t know how to turn on a PC or use a phone and they knew what I was looking at or talking to until I was 16 years old. There are all kinds of se
by Argonaut998 1y ago
My parents didn’t know how to turn on a PC or use a phone and they knew what I was looking at or talking to until I was 16 years old.
There are all kinds of services that parents can use now to filter this even further than what was possible 10-15 years ago
- kellystonelake 1y agoThe point of this research is that these services are often ineffective at "filtering" yet, as your comment demonstrates, makes people (parents, regulators) feel like the platforms are more safe.
- Argonaut998 1y agoParents should be mature enough to not take a scandalous social media company too seriously without any scrutiny. Note I’m not saying that Facebook don’t profit from being as ineffectual as possible, but ultimately that parents should know better.
- a456463 1y agoI think it is wild for people to understand what you are saying. Taking responsibility for your children instead of finding excuses. I had full internet access growing up and still I new better.
- pjc50 1y agoMy parents let me go and hang out with friends and commute to school by train. I guess everyone is expected to be full helicopter these days. One of my friends was busted at school for distributing porn downloaded from BBS on floppy disks.