What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children

Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by trollbridge on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:54PM (#50446840)

Oddly enough when I was 9 I regularly went places without a phone. If I needed to reach my family I’d have to find a pay phone and hope someone was at home to answer.

The general backup plan was to go to the nearest friends’ house.

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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by bluefirebrand on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @05:21PM (#50447118)

Yeah the difference is that kids now don't really remember phone numbers (neither do I anymore honestly), and pay phones are basically non-existent

I wish kids could go out like I used to but the world is just different and some of the failsafes I took for granted like payphones don't exist anymore

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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by mawise on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:43PM (#50448396)

I taught my kid my phone number when she was 7, and we tell her that if she needs help she can knock on anyone's front door and ask to use their phone.

These are choices we make, we dont need to give in to what "everyone" does.

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Re:What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children by jjgreen on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:42AM (#50451440)

I swear I read that as "... when I was 91 ...", wow, you get some proper old gits on HN

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