For me, any child below 15 years has no business with social media...social media is highly distractive, even to adult ...the shud be a regulation restricting children from social media
In most "normal" situations, parents can identify their children's contacts quickly and they can observe the black sheep closely and in the worst case try to prevent any further contact.
In social media, the weirdest and worst people are just a click away and you won't even notice it. Right now, there probably is a new trend or group out there that is extremely dangerous, or outright criminal and I don't even recognize it.
The thing is that the people/kids dying because of dumb challenges or the occasional illegal/gore/murder videos &c... aren't even the problem
These things are built to steal your attention and use every trick in the book to make you a brainless scroll monkey. There is a reason why not a single SV executive will let their kids anywhere close to social medias. These things destroy people's brains, and especially the brains of kids which are still developing and are extremely malleable to this type of conditioning. tiktok/snapchat/instragram &co bring absolutely nothing good to a kid's life, they're pure distraction devices
> parents can identify their children's contacts quickly and they can observe the black sheep closely and in the worst case try to prevent any further contact
Unless you monitor your kids 24/7: no, and again, these tools, even when used "safely" are still engineered to artificially trigger and reinforce the most basic reward pathways of your brain and this won't bring anything good to your kid's life
You can very well make the analogy with weed or alcohol. What might be fine for an healthy adult (able to set his own boundaries and conscious of the potential risks) would destroy a 10 years old kid very quickly
They are maybe a little bit of the problem
So I have to reject cars because of their negative effect in dense urban areas?
I have to reject alcohol at all or be fine with alcoholism?
It would basically be OG Facebook, which was a pivotal point in the development of social media. Facebook pivoted to focus on massive populations where everyone interacted with everyone, instead of the small subset of people you actually know.
Perhaps I'm alone in this experience, but social media in 2021 is vastly different in both form and function to social media in 2011. I'm not making a value judgement on which is better, but the two things barely resemble each other to me.
Yes, sounds good.
This ship sailed before covid already. But with covit, it is online discussion or nothing.
We will have to modify/add this to our educational system, there is no other way around it or parents will have to teach children this themselves (which is problematic since adults themselves are also addicated so we are missing a huge part of the puzzle of how the mind truly works).
A lof of adults think they are not addicted to twitter/facebook/hackernews but they somehow magicaly find themselves browing hackernews and facebook "suddenly and for no reason at all".
This seems to be one of the few books that actually works in practice: it is about porn addiction but it seems to be applicable to social media addication also.