The Case for Banning Children from Social Media

Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by bsenftner on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:44AM (#35452002)

How's about we start testing for maturity, and despite a person being 45 years of age, their maturity tests to be 12 years of age, so no social media for them. That would actually be significantly better for everyone involved. But who can trust anyone with a "maturity test" and then who can be trusted to administer said test honestly? Perhaps our entire society is immature and nobody deserves social media?

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by DoreenMichele on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:46AM (#35452007)

Perhaps our entire society is immature...and it's time we grew tf up.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by bsenftner on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:07AM (#35452163)

This is, in my opinion, a serious issue facing the human race today: we have a material number of flat out immature adults, and some of those immature idiots (looking at you Elon, and you Murdock, and many more) are far too powerful for their childish insatiable minds.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by DoreenMichele on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:08AM (#35452174)

I don't disagree with that.

I just don't think banning people from the internet is the answer.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by eimrine on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:48AM (#35455194)

Who will test a maturity of maturity test developers? They will be kind of a shaping factor for a society.

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Re:The Case for Banning Children from Social Media by bsenftner on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:19AM (#35467349)

My point was that such a test is impossible.

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