Re:Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys Gener...
by hosh on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:04PM
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My wife and I tried letting our teenager have her own cell phone, and that informed a lot of what I saw. We eventually found a locked down phone purpose-designed for kids, but I have no problem with getting a landline if it continues being an issue. (The issue with my kid and phones is not what we were discussing; she is on the autism spectrum, and so it is not quite the same; I have no idea yet what I will do with my neuraltypical son when he grows into a teenager)
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Re:Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys Gener...
by yeetman21 on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:14PM
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Are you guys also on the autistic spectrum too because that is no way to raise kids. When they leave the carefully curated and filtered walled garden that you've created for them and enter the real work at 18 or so, they are going to be hit like a truck. In college its always the kids whose parents were the strictest that act out or become alcoholics when the finally get a taste of freedom. You cannot do everything for them, it is better now for them to experience more of the world/ internet when you still can influence them/ they have a high opinion of you rather than ten years down the line when they feel betrayed or whatnot by you and don't want to speak.
Re:Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys Gener...
by throwaway3699 on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:27PM
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Yeah, GP is cutting their kids off from society. We aren't living in the 60s anymore, much of the infrastructure for growth and development at that age does not exist outside the internet. Just look at libraries, social clubs, etc... They're all replaced.