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What about the kids who are bullied and isolated at school? What about those who have an abusive family?
by squigz 11mo ago
What about the kids who are bullied and isolated at school? What about those who have an abusive family?
- deadbolt 11mo agoWhat about the kids who are bullied on social media?
- squigz 11mo agoOne of the good things about the Internet is that you can leave such sites and find people who don't do that. Most kids don't really have such a choice when it comes to school or their family.
- chalupa-supreme 11mo agoOnline abuse works the exact same way. Most kids don’t choose to be abused online either.
- squigz 11mo agoYes. What I'm saying is that people can choose to leave online spaces that are abusive, as opposed to abuse at school or home, which are much harder (usually impossible) for children to escape.
- rjdj377dhabsn 11mo agoThey should simply stop using social media. Why ban everyone else?
- awillowingmind 11mo agoAh yes brilliant. Instead of trying to address these issues at their source let’s just let kids form immaterial connections online and guarantee they never learn how to form any sort of in person communication skills!
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- nxor 11mo agoThat's the spirit. Gotta get that ad revenue.
- iteria 11mo agoI'm sorry what does a gay kid do about parents that think they are fundamentally immoral? What does any kind of abused kid do? Because my parents were abusive, but not in the way that left marks and the internet was the only thing keeping me sane. I lived in a neighborhood with no kids my age and across town from my school, so even the friends I made there lived nowhere near me. The internet was not a place I made immaterial connections. It's where I maintained what I had until the rare occasions I could see them outside of school. It was where I got to interact with people who gave me the motivation to keep going until I could escape. What does a kid like me do without the internet? No one was going to step in because my parents isolated me and where a bit mean (from their POV, not mine). Not when I was clean, had food and clothing, and was a straight A student, be real.
- awillowingmind 11mo agoYou are framing this as if you had no in person social connections due to your circumstances. By your OWN admission elsewhere in this thread, this is untrue: > Kids are in these spaces because there is no place for them to be. People call the police on unaccompanied kids outside. Teens are banned from malls. Where are teens supposed to be where they won't be harassed. When I was a kid we used to just wander around and chat. There used to be a whole event on Friday evenings where high schoolers would decent on this mall across the street from two movie theaters. We went to the skating ring. There were teen clubs. More. Right now, I can't think of a single place a teen could just hang out besides at each other houses which is mostly what I watch them do. It makes sense why they end up in virtual spaces. They can socialize privately that way. What I am saying is that we should work toward bringing those ^ spaces BACK, rather than allowing kids to wallow in digital space. The more we are online, the more difficult that becomes. The more time we spend in digital space, the more we lose control over our physical spaces.