Not even the fun kind of X. C'mon, iPad kids!
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This what we're calling gen alpha then?
Apple is gonna love that free advertising
Is it really any worse than Gen X's symbol of youthful rebellion being a cable TV channel owned and operated by Viacom so they can advertise music that's been packaged up by the big three labels?
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
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"Butters? Are you on Twitter?"
"No Dad! Just watching porn!"
..It's actually a much better alternative, I can't even lie.
I mean it's run by the biggest kid, so I guess it's understandable that they at least want to check out what their like-minded fellow is doing over there.
I hope they turn away in disgust.
Terminally online toddlers
I found it interesting to see where Roblox falls off the chart.
Parents, all you have to do is talk near them about how cool X is to you, while suppressing your gag reflex long enough for them to cringe.
I’m surprised that Facebook consistently ranks higher than Snapchat on these charts. I thought younger generations considered Facebook to be for “old people” for just about 7 years now.
It highly depends on country, region, socioeconomic factors etc.
Facebook in Brazil survives through groups, I don't think people actually engage with the feed, most use it as forum each one inside their own groups.
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So what. Everyone was on twitter in middle school for me back when it first became a thing. It's not new news.
Twitter now is what 4chan was then in many ways. This should be disconcerting in the least.
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It's an anti-social network, makes sense with the trend of gen alpha sharing less and less, they will stumble through a lot of porn though...
You should have to actually validate your age to use social media and you should be required to be 18.
People who use age as a measure of intelligence are the proof that is doesn't work. ;)
Lmao, the article is literally talking about children under the age of 10
Yes dear, but if you take 2 minutes to understand how the threaded comment system works you will realize I was not talking about the article but replying to a specific comment who mentionned the age of "18" as some kind of cutoff date.
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No I don't think we should give corpos access to even more identifying info about us. You have a kid YOU have the responytobtake care of them not me. If you believe a kid should be able to go on the internet without proper surveillance it's on you if something happens to that kid not me. I would not give my kids a blank plane ticket to go anywhere they want in the world without surveillance, it's the same for the internet. It's not my responsibility to secure your kid it's yours.
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Nah I don't want corpos to have even more information on me than they already have.
It's time for people to finally accept again that you can't shield kids from anything, especially if it seems forbidden and interesting.
Also if you really wanted to pick a verification age you would have to go with 25+. 18 years old are just legal 17 years old and 20 years are barely out of school and don't have any experience about anything. 30+ years are stuck in the system and 65+ simply don't care anymore.
Actually raise the verification age to 99+. No wait just ban social media for everyone, it sucks and is unhealthy, go tough grass or something.
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Easy and cheap access to anonymous, private, libre, and freedom-respecting computing is the inaliable human right of all hackers and future hackers.
I shouldn't even need an email to sign up, why do you think I'm here?
Let's introduce a national digital id to stop the kids accessing shit online. And to ensure that we need to make it linked to ur government id.
Edit: spelling
Let's not be pieces of shit using "for the kids" to destroy basic privacy rights online.
But think of the children they must be protected we can't possibly expect parents to be responsible so the government must step in to ensure their safety.
Yeah there's no way that could go wrong or be exploited by unscrupulous actors. Maybe parents should actually parent their kids? Extreme, I know.
What could possibly go wrong. There definatly wouldnt be any authoritarian shit going on.
So every person can be identified on whatever sites they do whatever they post.
That's China. Not America
You could very easily build the system to perform the age check without logging it to the user's ID since the check only needs to be performed once to create an account and just block anyone without one from seeing any of the content.
Estonia has digital ID based services and they aren't China. In fact China despises them because they've made the cutting edge in digital public services without having to compromise citizen privacy, which makes China look even worse for going out of their way to invade citizen privacy when it isn't even necessary to offer the same safety measures and services.
What about we introduce more control from teachers and parents about what devices kids have access to, and give them some supervision too while we're at it?
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You'd what?
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Do COPPA fines apply here?
As unenforcable as they've always been, and honestly I prefer it that way. Really don't want to give my ID to random websites.
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