Comment on Do you fear for children's future with social media growing even more?
bstix@feddit.dk 3 days agoCurrent old people grew up with the technology of their time: cars and television. Yet they’re the worst drivers and watch televised propaganda all day long.
If we want to save the children from social media, we first need to accept that it’s a problem for everybody, not just kids, since we also can’t handle it safely by ourselves and especially not when we get older.
Social Media is somewhat like the discovery of birth control pills. At first it opened for some freedom, but Social Media is now in the AIDS phase. I don’t think it is possible to make a fool proof legal restriction for neither kids or old people, but we can teach and encourage a cultural change for safe practices.
The__Guy_Fawkes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That is nothing compared to the tech of today.
3abas@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“what’s a computer”
Most of these ipad kids are just as illiterate as old people who don’t understand how to switch apps on an ipad. Knowing how to use Snapchat isn’t a skill, they don’t know how how to mount a drive, they are just as susceptible to propaganda and tomorrow’s advanced technology won’t just make sense to them when they’re older.
The__Guy_Fawkes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well yea, technically anything that computes is a computer. But the children today are still forced to use fast computers at school. I am talking about basic tasks that a 80 year old can’t do today that a 5 year old can do. And yes, I’ve asked the teachers. A lot of kids can’t read at an alarming age.
3abas@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I was referencing the ipad commercial where the kids say “what’s a computer?”
Kids today don’t understand the technology any more than kids yesterday understood early computers or kids before that understood early electronics, being able to use a technology product as intended doesn’t mean much, as they get older they’ll stop adopting the latest and greatest that the kids are into “these days” and will get out of touch and be left behind.
A subset of old people will still understand the newest technology as they do today, because that’s what they’re into, not because they simply grew up with it.