[1] https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/211/suicides-age/table#fmt=12...
1. Do understand it is the same group of 5-14 who go on to transition to becoming 15-24 & so after having their life experiences all of which contribute to suicide 2. Low rates among 5-14 might precisely be because they are currently sheltered from the shitstorm that is the world & wider implications of losing that innocence. Mass adoption of social media by that age group might directly accelerate that & atleast may cause a rise in suicide rates. Even a single life lost to such bullshit is devastating.
Please stop advocating for bs like social media that is really never required in our lives much less kids' lives.
Genuinely curious : I'd like to know the benefits (not to FB but to society) of Instagram for kids in order to even contemplate the risk benefit analysis. Do you have any sources at hand for this?
That plus the idea around tying it to a custodial "parent" account so that a parent can keep tabs on who they are following vastly improves the current situation.
AnecData alert : We tried Youtube kids in 2019 for about a day (for my then 4 year old son). We were so shocked to see suggestive content and other crazy stuff from "verified" and reputed (100k+ followers) that we uninstalled the app then and there. There's no worse insecurity than a false sense of security
And yes, I've heard all the stories about YT Kids, and even took a brief look. We're staying away from it. Some research + youtube-dl is our way of choice for sourcing songs for our kid to listen to.
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[0] - What do people expect? That content for YTKids / IGKids will be created by 9-13 years old?
Wouldn't it be ideal that our children don't feel suicidal due to the technology and dark patterns that we make available for their young minds (which would take till post-25 in general to actually know what's good for them)?
I suggest that even one suicide - especially in a child - is too high.
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Or are you saying suicidal ideation cannot be correlated to anything other than age? Which is also untrue since we have evidence social media (and other factors) can increase this risk.
If one even ignores the insane fact that that many young kids kill themselves every year, in what world is it okay to gleefully ignore an increase in suicides to any age group and the cause(s) of the increase?
Until now it seems