Is this why social media is not ideal for young kids? (Besides brain rot)

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Shadow-79 26 Jul @ 2:38am

Chances on encountering creeps or p3do: there are bad actors who groom children using catfish accounts (on any platform including TikTok) who harbor sinister intentions on tricking kids (equivalent to the "free candy" van but in the digital world). For instance, there was an adult YouTuber / Singer who was arrested and canceled for sexting a teen girl asking her for nudes.

Rage Bait content and venting (profanity): usually adult users write these types of posts (intended to be read by people their age, due to the content discussed and the usage of swear words), the kid may think those "bad" words from those posts are part of normal speech (when it is not) so they end up using words like f*ck, sh*t, p*ssy, etc. out of context (kids do imitate grown ups).

Even in TikTok: to host a live stream, the user has to be 18+ so even if a 13 year old has TikTok, they can't start a live stream on their own account due to being a minor. Usually, the kid or teen is featured on the parent's own TikTok account as live streams carry risks (who's watching: p3do, creeps, predators, etc.) & users who may spout comments containing swear words, etc.

Social media requires responsibility (like managing content posted, comments left, profile), can a kid do all of that alone without any adult supervision or not? So if you were a parent: would you really let your kid have their own public profile on social media (Instagram, TikTok, etc.) for everyone to see (including strangers) or would you still enforce a degree of privacy?

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lailaamell 26 Jul @ 2:41am

here is the thing alot of these issues has 1 guilty party and that is the parents its their job to raise their kids and ensure their safety but its slowly turned to everyone elses problem most children should already have a grasp of right and wrong by age of 12 but dont for their parents just put them in front of a screen for it was easier having kids is a responsebility that is something i hope is going to become a thing in society again

St✩rlight 26 Jul @ 2:47am

If I was a parent, I wouldn't let my kids online without supervision. It would be hard to set up parental blocks to block out every site I don't want my kid using. There needs to be a child friendly internet which just has educational resources and the only communications are between the kid and their school teachers through the school's official communications channels.

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lailaamell 26 Jul @ 2:49am

Originally posted by St✩rlight:
If I was a parent, I wouldn't let my kids online without supervision. It would be hard to set up parental blocks to block out every site I don't want my kid using. There needs to be a child friendly internet which just has educational resources and the only communications are between the kid and their school teachers through the school's official communications channels.

good but also dont over protect alot of the problems come from no one explaining what the kid saw most online games would honestly be less toxic if parents played with their kids but yeah school is to give kids a basic understanding of the world and to get them some intrest in a subject but behavior is the parents job but this is not about for example gender dysphoria and such those are hinted to have a genetic factor those things existed before social media but parents job is to ensure what they release into adult hood is a decent person and not a narcistic spoiled sociopath and protect them during development and to support ive seen to many people get kids and just dump them infront of a screen for it makes their lifes easier or that raising kids arent fun

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St✩rlight 26 Jul @ 3:05am

Originally posted by lailaamell:
ive seen to many people get kids and just dump them infront of a screen for it makes their lifes easier or that raising kids arent fun

That is the problem. They neglect their own kids and then blame everyone else for it.

Moose 26 Jul @ 3:05am

Originally posted by lailaamell:
alot of the problems come from no one explaining what the kid saw most online games would honestly be less toxic if parents played with their kids but yeah school is to give kids a basic understanding of the world and to get them some intrest in a subject but behavior is the parents job

You can't blame a game for the toxicity when you have parents letting their kids play games outside their age rating, like 12 year olds playing Call of Duty, a PEGI 18 rated game. This puts them them with older communities, that's a recipe for disaster and it isn't the games fault.

Social media is a direct feed into easily influenced minds.

lailaamell 26 Jul @ 3:07am

Originally posted by Moose:
Originally posted by lailaamell:
alot of the problems come from no one explaining what the kid saw most online games would honestly be less toxic if parents played with their kids but yeah school is to give kids a basic understanding of the world and to get them some intrest in a subject but behavior is the parents job

You can't blame a game for the toxicity when you have parents letting their kids play games outside their age rating, like 12 year olds playing Call of Duty, a PEGI 18 rated game. This puts them them with older communities, that's a recipe for disaster and it isn't the games fault.

Social media is a direct feed into easily influenced minds.

i dont blame the games tho kids are toxic online no matter but with a parent playing with they wont behave like toxic monsters

steven1mac 26 Jul @ 3:18am

You'll never childproof the internet, and trying will only take freedoms away from everyone and not solve the problem. Even if a kid was not allowed social media, they would still find a way to use it anyways, and every kid has a cellphone, so there is a risk of them taking pictures of themselves. There really isn't a solution shy of taking every electronic device away, and isolating a kid until they are an adult, because something "might" happen.

Gaming Gamer 26 Jul @ 3:44pm

To make the internet childproof is like removing all water from earth with a single kitchen-sponge. It simply isn't possible, since it is mostly used by people old enough to know how to properly use it. The much more effective way would be to age-restrict the internet to keep your kids save, keeping them away from it until they are old enough to handle it wisely and to be taken acountable for their actions, just like we do with alcohol and stuff.

But no, we need to make it save for the children and technically ban every p*rn on the whole internet because a child could see what it'll secretly google once it turns 13 anyway, ruining the fun for every adult as well because apparently everyone is either a radical conservative or too lazy to take care of their own children by teaching them responsible use of the internet.

Lime 26 Jul @ 3:45pm

Maybe children should just ♥♥♥♥ off? There's plenty of information offline, maybe they should focus on school first.

The internet shouldn't be a baseline experience, it should be somewhat earned. Prove you're intelligent enough to navigate it with some level of sensibility and commit yourself to an education. Those who don't know how to be taught, shouldn't teach themselves.

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