Features I can think of:
- a system for stricter content moderation, especially something that would automatically delete NSFW/NSFL posts,
- no direct messaging,
- some kind of tool for moderators to efficiently review content,
- multi-layered access to an account to allow for parental control,
- time management tool that would not be based on the client, but with the session duration calculated through interactions.
Yeah but what do you want the kids to interact with? There’s a lot of sfw stuff like politics and hate speech I don’t want kids to be near of.
Kids having unsupervised access to internet is just a bad idea in my opinion, no matter safe you try to make it.
Also the moderation issue someone pointed here.
I like the parental control idea of yours, because of this reason. Atleast it helps to certain degree.
Raising children without involving them in politics is terribly cruel. Children are the future and will need to live in the world we create, so they’re the most important people to involve in the political decision making process. Greta Thunberg knows that.
She’s not glued to tech bullshit and you don’t need tech bullshit to inform kids on politics
If anything, having kids sucked into online bullshit will dramatically reduce their political engagement and just turn them into another depressed and apathetic tech consumer
Issues surrounding queer rights are deeply political, and also very important to expose to developing minds. Young people need to know about gay, bi, ace, trans, nonbinary, and intersex identities so they can accept and advocate for themselves. Hiding information on gender dysphoria from teenagers who are going through puberty is abuse. And kids also need to be aware of the discrimination and legal challenges they can face as a queer person, so they can make an informed choice about whether and when to come out of the closet. They also need opportunities to advocate for themselves online and to comment on current events, so that their voices are heard by the people in power. We cannot let adults completely control the narrative on issues like puberty blockers, we need to hear from children who are living these stories.
I’m not sure any of those things require social media services
Especially when irl social media services for kids mostly result in interpersonal abuses and right wing fomentation (look into the discord child sex abuse and terrorism problems)
Open access to quality information does not need to be intertwined with public social media and everything we’re seeing technology do to children is harmful
We’re seeing technology do a lot of great things for kids. We’re seeing puberty blockers and vaccines save lives. We’re seeing kids with no adults they can trust find community on the internet. We’re seeing kids spread a message of hope and resilience and care for the environment across the world. We’re seeing renewable energy heat their homes and feed them. We’re seeing electric wheelchairs gives kids with no legs mobility. We’re seeing assistive speech devices give kids with auditory deficits a voice. We’re using cochlear implants and eyeglasses to let kids see and hear.
Technology is so great for kids. I would not want to raise a child without modern technology. Hell, without modern antibiotics and disinfectants and vaccines, it’s even odds they die before their first birthday.
I should have been more specific but I meant social media connectivity technologies
We don’t need public social media for kids for any of those other things
Ah, well… No. I can understand how that opinion makes sense from a cishet perspective, but the internet has been a game changer for queer people. You do not want a generation of kids in conservative areas having nobody to talk to.
And when it comes to otherkin and plural kids, forget it. Social media bans are already scarring people and reifying traumas. We have a soaring rate of youth suicidality here in Australia https://www.suicidepreventionaust.org/reckless-haste-rushed-legislation-on-social-media-ban-risks-harm-to-young-australians/
I’m not cishet but your problem is not social media bans its the already existent homophobic violence present in society
Enabling private communications and making true knowledge available through technology are not the same things as just letting kids post things to the public internet via systems literally invented and designed to be addictive and profit off social harm
Edit; the best analogy I’ve seen is it’s like selling kids open source range free cigarettes. Cigarettes are simply bad and almost all social media is too and it’s even worse for children
That only sounds good until you realise this political exposure is also the reason children are going the andrew tate route. It’s easier to influence children than it is to adults, and my point still stands, neither of these things must be shown to children without adult supervision atleast.
The only reason the human species evolved language is for political organisation. Kids need politics to thrive. We have examples of kids who were raised without politics like Genie and they were severely intellectually stunted. Politics is as fundamental to the human condition as breathing.