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Re:Facebook is bad for you: Get a life by threeseed on Monday September 02, 2013 @05:30PM (#6317290)
I guarentee that you discouraging your kids from having Facebook accounts (or whatever their equivalent is) will only do harm. Privacy in the modern era means being selective about the disclosure of content. It doesn't mean completely pulling away from social networks which are increasingly vital to social interaction.

Plus pretty sure you don't understand modern day kids otherwise you would know that private tools e.g. Snapchat are more often the real invasion of privacy.

Re:Facebook is bad for you: Get a life by jonknee on Monday September 02, 2013 @06:32PM (#6317564)
> Plus pretty sure you don't understand modern day kids otherwise you would know that private tools e.g. Snapchat are more often the real invasion of privacy.

How is Snapchat more an invasion of privacy than Facebook? Facebook has played fast and loose with user data at every opportunity while Snapchat is based around user data being ephemeral. Maybe I have missed the news stories of kids committing suicide because of private Snapchats, but the two companies have literally opposite goals in terms of data retention.

Re:Facebook is bad for you: Get a life by coldtea on Monday September 02, 2013 @06:38PM (#6317593)
>I guarentee that you discouraging your kids from having Facebook accounts (or whatever their equivalent is) will only do harm.

Because FB is some kind of inevitable force?

I, for one, also respect parents that don't let their kids watch television crap.