Florida is banning social media for children under 14 on January 1st, what do you think about it?
Florida is banning social media for children under 14 on January 1st, what do you think about it?
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I think that I, as a person born on Jan 1st, 1900, can circumvent age gates, then so will these kids.
This is a major waste of tax dollars.
There is research around this that suggests more than half of all children have profiles with an 18+ age.
I recall the most common is to bump their age by 10 years, keeping the month and day the same. Also, many of these are setup with the guidance of a parent.
Also, many of these are setup with the guidance of a parent.
👀 ok it’s one thing for kids to be clever and circumvent age restrictions on websites, it’s another thing for their parents to help them. That’s just bad parenting. Reminds me of a friend of mine who’s mom would buy him alcohol starting around 15 - guess what, at 25 he’s a raging fucking alcoholic who threw his life away. And he was a natural talent and athlete who could of potentially gone pro in his sport.
I'm guessing you don't have children.
Underaged drinking is nothing like having an account that lets them use the full set of features.
Laws around social media do not allow parental discretion. Do you think allowing a 13 to watch R movies is bad parenting or should that be left up to the parent to decide?
Would you blame movies for teen pregnancy?
Do you blame video games for violence?
The unfortunate reality is your alcoholic friend was likely to become one either the way.
I've read that starting drinking early is a solid indicator of future addiction. OTOH I thinks it's largely genetic.
Correct. Largely genetic to the point there are specific genes that are link to it.
The early drinking part is likely because they are being raised by alcoholics so access to easy and possibly encouraged.
Claiming early drinking alone is responsible for alcoholism is about as meaningful as blaming early marijuana use to drug addiction.
The path to the destination may leads through certain steps but does not require those steps. There is a reason many children of addicts choose absolute abstention.
I'm guessing you don't have children.
No, and no intention. Irrelevant.
Underaged drinking is nothing like having an account that lets them use the full set of features.
Both are addictive substances that interfere with brain development. One you have to drink to affect brain chemistry, the other you have to use. Social media networks are designed to be addictive.
The internet of today is going to be looked at one day the same way cigarettes are today.
Do you think allowing a 13 to watch R movies is bad parenting or should that be left up to the parent to decide?
Not an addictive substance.
Would you blame movies for teen pregnancy?
Not an addictive substance.
Do you blame video games for violence?
I blame violent society.
The unfortunate reality is your alcoholic friend was likely to become one either the way.
Irrelevant. Anybody’s brain chemistry can be fucked with. Just look at kids going through withdrawal symptoms when they don’t have their tech toys.
You don't have children and have no plans so let me let you in on a little parenting secret:
Never tell other people how to parent their children.
I'm not gong to bother touching the idea you've got in your head that social media is an addictive substance but tv and movies are not not the idea that tech withdrawal is anything like drug withdrawal.
Never tell other people how to parent their children.
Fuck off, parents rights bullshit is at the expense of the children. That’s how you end up with traumatized queer children and kids with drug and alcohol problems. My friends mom buying him a six pack of beer every day when he was a teenager is absolutely responsible for his alcoholism. She would have been charged with child endangerment crimes if she had been reported at the time but I didn’t know him as well back then nor how bad it was.
Social media affects the brain in the way that movies and TV do not. Video games are similar but not as bad. The same brain chemicals that drugs and alcohol stimulate are the same ones stimulated by social media and video games. Like anything else moderation is fine. Doom scrolling all day and/or playing video games all day everyday is not healthy. Social media is especially manipulative and there’s a profit motive to keep people outraged and hooked.
I feel like I’m arguing with a teenager right now who doesn’t even know what life was like before social media and can’t comprehend it’s affect on society. For the worse. For everyone. At least us millennials and older had a fair shot at proper brain development before social media took over - I graduated HS the year Facebook opened its site to the general public instead of just Ivy League schools.