For what it’s worth I’m 28 and I agree with them. Being able to communicate online was the only thing that kept me alive through my teen years and if anything I needed more quality social opportunities online not less.
you can’t possibly compare your experience from 20 years ago to what children can experience online today.
I know what was going on online then because I was around your age now then.
I’ve been where you were. I was on forums and BBSs when I was 12. Had my parents knew what I was doing at 12, they would have stopped it immediately.
I had a GF online at 13 years old. she was 20. know how fucked up that shit is?
today, that kind of shit is even more prevalent. So no, at least for my kids, they won’t get phones or smart watches or tablets that they can take into their rooms. alone. at night.
being able to communicate does not require access to a personal device. I have a house phone, I have a PC available to them. I block all major social media platforms on the network. by allowing a device the ability to circumvent those protections I have put in place, I only negate my own hard work.
hey! who let this kid on Lemmy?
don’t their parents know we’re a bunch of fucking sexual deviants hell bent on the overthrowing of our oligarchic overlords?!
That’s why I sent my kid here! To be radicalised!
… but my kid is a cat…and has no opposable thumbs…and he was already an asshole…wtf am I doing with my life…
For what it’s worth I’m 28 and I agree with them. Being able to communicate online was the only thing that kept me alive through my teen years and if anything I needed more quality social opportunities online not less.
you can’t possibly compare your experience from 20 years ago to what children can experience online today.
I know what was going on online then because I was around your age now then.
I’ve been where you were. I was on forums and BBSs when I was 12. Had my parents knew what I was doing at 12, they would have stopped it immediately.
I had a GF online at 13 years old. she was 20. know how fucked up that shit is?
today, that kind of shit is even more prevalent. So no, at least for my kids, they won’t get phones or smart watches or tablets that they can take into their rooms. alone. at night.
being able to communicate does not require access to a personal device. I have a house phone, I have a PC available to them. I block all major social media platforms on the network. by allowing a device the ability to circumvent those protections I have put in place, I only negate my own hard work.
20 years ago I was eight, I am thinking more of when I was 15. So we’re talking 10 years ago not 20