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Good thing the kids are safe.. from being allowed to use apps or websites with that allow users to communicate. Thank god we dodged that bullet

xigoi 7mo ago
You mean apps designed to get kids addicted to scrolling through endless brainrot content?
- bcjdjsndon 7mo ago
  They said TV rots your brains and the science never followed. I guarantee you this is the same thing as tv-hysteria... it will be shown to be overblown parental hysteria. I'm willing to bet money on the proposition. Social media is so toxic and evil yet the parents are on it everyday, which seems suspicious to me. How does this supposed brainrot not affect the adult brain?
9p 7mo ago
there are other means for communication . you realize how unnecessary these services are once you stop using them
- bcjdjsndon 7mo ago
  Except you're on it and right now
  - 9p 7mo ago
    it's hermit coded to consider hn social media lol
iamthemonster 7mo ago
I've got a 12 year old in Australia and the social media ban has been amazing. Since the algorithm-distraction-machine is parasitical on users' social network, the kids just have little interest in it because their social network is not there. They aree making phone calls to each other and riding round each other's houses on bikes. Older teenagers who already has social media accounts have generally found workarounds, but the young teenagers are just not joining up. It's been an excellent success story of collective action overcoming the harmful effects of private profit-motivated interests. The tech giants literally could not care less about the mental health of some teenagers in Australia, but their parents do. It's easy to simply ban one teenager from using social media but removing a teenager from their social network is a date worse than death from their perspective. So once the parasite of social media has infected teenagers' social network and established itself, teenagers were really lumped with the choice of "do I lose contact with my friends or continue using this distraction machine specifically designed to get me hooked?" and they will always choose the latter. I was skeptical initially, but having experienced the effects, I'm incredibly impressed that for once we have put a red line against foreign private companies harming our citizens.
- bcjdjsndon 7mo ago
  > I'm incredibly impressed that for once we have put a red line against foreign private companies harming our citizens. Not enough for you to stop using it though eh? Hacker news, sorry to tell you, is a "distraction machine specifically designed to get (you) hooked". So are books but that's a good kind of distraction obviously.
  - DiskoHexyl 7mo ago
    Hardly fair to describe books as a medium designed to get one hooked

xigoi 7mo ago

You mean apps designed to get kids addicted to scrolling through endless brainrot content?

bcjdjsndon 7mo ago
They said TV rots your brains and the science never followed. I guarantee you this is the same thing as tv-hysteria... it will be shown to be overblown parental hysteria. I'm willing to bet money on the proposition. Social media is so toxic and evil yet the parents are on it everyday, which seems suspicious to me. How does this supposed brainrot not affect the adult brain?

9p 7mo ago

there are other means for communication . you realize how unnecessary these services are once you stop using them

bcjdjsndon 7mo ago
Except you're on it and right now
- 9p 7mo ago
  it's hermit coded to consider hn social media lol

iamthemonster 7mo ago

I've got a 12 year old in Australia and the social media ban has been amazing. Since the algorithm-distraction-machine is parasitical on users' social network, the kids just have little interest in it because their social network is not there. They aree making phone calls to each other and riding round each other's houses on bikes. Older teenagers who already has social media accounts have generally found workarounds, but the young teenagers are just not joining up. It's been an excellent success story of collective action overcoming the harmful effects of private profit-motivated interests. The tech giants literally could not care less about the mental health of some teenagers in Australia, but their parents do. It's easy to simply ban one teenager from using social media but removing a teenager from their social network is a date worse than death from their perspective. So once the parasite of social media has infected teenagers' social network and established itself, teenagers were really lumped with the choice of "do I lose contact with my friends or continue using this distraction machine specifically designed to get me hooked?" and they will always choose the latter. I was skeptical initially, but having experienced the effects, I'm incredibly impressed that for once we have put a red line against foreign private companies harming our citizens.

bcjdjsndon 7mo ago
> I'm incredibly impressed that for once we have put a red line against foreign private companies harming our citizens. Not enough for you to stop using it though eh? Hacker news, sorry to tell you, is a "distraction machine specifically designed to get (you) hooked". So are books but that's a good kind of distraction obviously.
- DiskoHexyl 7mo ago
  Hardly fair to describe books as a medium designed to get one hooked