Good on these parents for trying to raise their kids off social media. I can say with confidence social media only hurt me in middle and high school, and I wish my parents had had stronger opinions on me using it
I am so thankful that I got out of school before social media blew up. We had Myspace, and Facebook opened up to everyone I think my junior year of HS, but smartphones didn’t become a thing until my senior year, and they weren’t that prevalent either.
Same! I didn’t even have a computer till the year I graduated high school because they cost too much then. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of people had them. We were the odd family in the neighborhood. Not that anyone cared. Once I got one, the only social media type stuff that I remember using was AIM, Photobucket, and shudder LiveJournal. I couldn’t imagine navigating the internet today where everyone has figured out exactly how to exploit you for everything without you even knowing because you are too young to understand still.
Lemmy is the only social media I use. I intend for my kids to not touch any of it.
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Experts: social media is harmful for kids
Schools: let’s use social media as an official communication platform!
WTF.
Life as a teen isn’t easy anyway
Glad that shit is over for me. We only had MySpace and MSN Messenger. Must be so much worse now
I’d say so with those constant little dopamine hits. Shit, I’m 40 and I’ve had to put a bunch of efforSHIT IM ON LEMMY AGAIN!
I mean I got along without it, i just played video games and masturbated most of the time
Sounds like you’re older though. Social media wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous a decade ago as it is now.
There was separation between online and everything else. But for these kids, online is everything. The spaces are nearly equal in experience and importance.
Yeah I suppose so, but all I mean is, kids are pretty good at finding ways to entertain themselves
