Re:The reason Facebook won’t ever change
by wgoodall01 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:11PM
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Although raising kids without access to TV/social media may seem like a great way to avoid their downsides, like ad targeting, it ultimately only serves to cut them off from their peers.
TV and social media serve as vital cultural references that kids have a social need to be 'in on.' It is one of the most awkward things when you're the only one in a room who has no clue what everyone else is talking about because you didn't see that post, or watch that show.
So while social networks may be bad, it's just as bad to cut kids off from the culture their peers are regularly immersed in.
Of course they won't. But we shouldn't want FB to "change" (meaning, "improve", whatever that means). We should wish it stay exactly as it is, and die.
There has never been a TV in my home. As time passes, I notice my kids tend to make friends with other kids coming from non-tv homes (probably because they have more to share with them, and nothing to say about what was on TV last night.
Those who care enough can raise a generation of social-networks-free people.