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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by uptownfunk on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:34PM (#35448952)
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by sgt on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:27AM (#35450130)
It's your (our) generation who built all this stuff. We thought it would be "neat".
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by rocketbop on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:22AM (#35450531)
We thought it would be lucrative.
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by barrkel on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:06AM (#35450875)
We thought we had no alternative because if we didn't do it, someone else would, and they'd eat our lunch.
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by account42 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:48AM (#35452494)
It's a very small subset of our generation that built all this stuff.
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by Mezzie on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:46AM (#35453200)
It gives me very big Ariel signing the contract with Ursula vibes.

We signed away our integrity for validation and money.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by dghughes on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:05AM (#35453466)
Millennials blame Boomers for the economy, housing now Gen Z will blame Millennials for inventing social media. :D
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by rocketbop on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:05AM (#35450406)
> YouTube needs an option to disable shorts. It’s just not healthy.

I have disabled them along with suggestions with a browser extension, but the temp station is always there to enable again even briefly. Shorts are particularly addictive and must play hell with our dopamine receptors.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by chongli on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:04AM (#35451307)
Install a userscripts extension in your browser and with that install a userscript such as Focused YouTube [1]. I did and never looked back! I want nothing to do with TikTok or YouTube shorts. I watch long-form videos on science, math, and engineering topics for the most part.

[1] https://github.com/KervynH/Focused-YouTube

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by uptownfunk on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:34AM (#35454956)
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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by Levitz on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:13AM (#35455588)
Firefox started supporting userscripts through Tampermonkey a couple of months ago.
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