Taking options away from children will not make their lives better just by itself
And this social media ban might only move the conversation to less transparent channels
WhatsApp and Telegram know more about children than their parents
And child can still spend all doing unhealthy stuff. YouTube kids is addictive enough, at home watching Netflix, playing video games, tablet/phone addictive games...
So the only real solution is force companies to provide better parental controls, maybe aided by AI
And force companies to add better controls/defaults for the population in general to reduce addictive features
Parents parenting is good. But there are no easy tools for them toto limit apps and websites on the device. And these companies provide very little help
Probably making fund to provide an alternative social media with vetted content for children, without addictive features like feed scrolling, and requiring in person friendships or school partnership, would probably go further to help than bans
> As someone who grew up with fewer options, I disagree. It was precisely because I had so few options that I explored (both physically and mentally).
Can't see how having facebook banned but roblox, telegram groups, reddit, yt kids available will improve their mental health
But banning everything is also probably just as dumb
Me/Wife have read every single day before bed to our daughter, since before she could talk, and we still do. Books from the library. And some effort involved
Now she also reads a 150 page book every other day
At the age of 7 she has read more books than I did my whole life. Which I don't think I did much anyway
The other day moved the Thunderbird folder profile to another PC, the password was not saved, and I ignored the password pop up a few times, then it started deleting the inbox emails
And it is not the first time it feels unreliable
I would like to think there is a good and reliable open source email client
So today you open a savings account, put money there every month of your life, and in 50 years someone takes it away and gives you a more "reasonable option"?
> Now if any of the people posting the rage stuff want to actually review any of the code I’ve published and make constructive criticisms then that would be great!
When you quickly churn more lines of code in a few days than you changed in months, and then release them as a normal, not sure you're expecting "constructive criticism"
Also if I suspect the project is just slopping high amount of code without proper thought, I probably won't invest my time into reading those changes
Taking options away from children will not make their lives better just by itself
And this social media ban might only move the conversation to less transparent channels
WhatsApp and Telegram know more about children than their parents
And child can still spend all doing unhealthy stuff. YouTube kids is addictive enough, at home watching Netflix, playing video games, tablet/phone addictive games...
So the only real solution is force companies to provide better parental controls, maybe aided by AI
And force companies to add better controls/defaults for the population in general to reduce addictive features
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