Do you fear for children's future with social media growing even more?

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  no, I fear for my child’s future because of the data harvesting that happens through social media and if she has to register with her govt id to use said social media

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  • The__Guy_Fawkes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But remember, all of the children are our our future.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I led by example. No non-anonymous social media for me, and my kids followed my example. It wasn’t even a discussion.

  Doesn’t seem to have harmed them at all; they’ve got lots of friends and lots of Signal chat groups. And if you look for them online by name, you get a very curated and focused set of results, many of which are fakes.

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why is it always about protecting the kids from technology?

  I’m way more concerned about the future of the elderly having technology than the children.

  Old people out of touch with technology are dangerous. In 20 years that’ll be you and me and we are going to lose touch and we are going to do dangerous shit. How do we stop ourselves from doing that?

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  • The__Guy_Fawkes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was more concerned about the bullying and creeps finding your kid’s photos online.

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Current 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.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I fear for everyones future for many different reason. I would say pollution and global warming are at the top.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, alot of gen alpha people want to be influencers, its quite sad how some of them are seeing that as a goal, plus the usage of AI for doing hw is only going to hurt them more.

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  • FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, back in the day people wanted to become movie stars, singer and whatever. It’s not much different and the chances are about equally low.

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• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If I even choose to have kids someday they are no gonna get a tablet or a smartphone till they are like 10+ uaa years old, these social networks and games will negatively impact their mental development if exposed to early

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you sure social media is growing? Pretty sure I live in a world where there is a lot of governmental and societal backlash to it. Age verification laws, addiction lawsuits, etc.

  But I have considered online communication to be a societal good ever since I first discovered it, and have no intention to change my mind on it (which is why I am here). So the answer to that is also no.

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s an aspect I can control. Geopolitics and climate change are vastly more impactful and I don’t control them

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In general yes.

  But I am glad that mine are quite strong in this regard. I do not fear for them.

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