Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?

Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on ... by AstralStorm on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:47PM (#42703619)

This is way too slow and thus will be only effective in baiting your kids to try it early or harder. Or give them an anti-tech superiority complex which is counterproductive.

I'd say you need to start actually explaining how things work on these more advanced platforms immediately, as well as healthy patterns in use so they do not get sucked into it forever. And that these things are tools. It can be done ELI3, though it's not easy. There are resources abound.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on ... by scop on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:10PM (#42703912)

My kids play Minecraft and Sonic all the time these days. The key is my kids have developed a sense of how some things are different than others and that is good and also bad. It’s a system that allows and encourages discussion.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on ... by Dwedit on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:14PM (#42703968)

How do you explain these kind of ideas to a three-year-old?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on ... by Mr-Frog on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:22PM (#42704063)

> anti-tech superiority complex which is counterproductive

I didn't have a phone until significantly after my peers, so I used our family computer, Instagram's undocumented API, and a variety of SMS forwarding solutions to keep in touch with my friends, which I think definitely sparked my interest in hacking and a career in software.

I developed a superiority complex, but it was more anti-conformity and pro-hacking than anything.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on ... by kridsdale1 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:34PM (#42704206)

This complex is deserved.

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