We were just discussing this at work tonight. We all said the same thing. Thing is, we also said that had the internet in its current state been around when we were all 12/13/14 years old we would all have been silly enough to send certain types of pictures to females and ask for certain types back and then share them about. Looking back it’s good that we grew up when we did. Yes we were daft but our daftness was confined to a small area, not the whole world.
Haven’t watched the show but work with complex young people. If I rant on about increasing taxation on the wealthy it’s so we can have youth activities. For kids from low income families or those where parents are working their knackers off to pay the bills and have little time (most people) kids need support from trusted adults . People who can be positive role models, spot unsafe or unhealthy choices and organise some joy. If that can reach into every place with a big enough dosage we’ll see less violence, less exploitation and less need for mental health provision. It really is that simple. More organised positivity means less online isolation. It’s time people campaigned to make this a legal right of a child, an absolute must, or society will be ruined.
He rants, good points by the way, you WUM, while I drum on about Early Leavers... we have all learned to respect each other's limitations/boundaries... however the youth of today, are growing up in a much more easier influenced environment, which basically the government need to get a grip of.
I’m not sure I would have sent dodgy photos when I was a kid EJK. By the time I had saved my pocket money to buy a 127mm film, worked out how to load and use the family Kodak Brownie, took the pictures then sent the film off to be developed, run some errands to save the sixpence for a stamp, borrowed one of me dad’s Basildon Bond envelopes. I reckon the juvenile impulse would have passed and if it hadn’t I deserve to be locked up and placed on the register
Think this belongs here.. women going to the Middle East for easy money to essentially be abused, we’ve known it’s gone on for a while but f*ck me this is awful. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/onlyfans-model-20-found-dubai-131601325.html
On the jokes thread there is a picture of Brennan Johnson and his fiancé with a rather embarrassing claim about her past life. I shared the joke with my spurs mate and he advised it was made up by some jealous teenager... Another example of the shocking power of an unchecked Internet
There will be a myriad of reasons but one of them will be that we are forgetting the meaning of dignity, for yourself and for others.
The moral reset I was calling for last July... We need our government to get on top of things, and drive values back into society
Social media is absolute poison and it’s not even just the younger generation. Girls getting surgery/aesthetics from such a young age, people doing anything for views or clout. Think I’ve mentioned before I don’t use any socials but I have TikTok as I had to make an account to view videos people would send me. Was a “trend” doing the rounds of lasses saying something like “you look like a fiat 500 girl” with a picture of themselves then posting another picture of the car they actually drive. What the **** is that all about? Why do people actually care? Women posting supercars that clearly aren’t theirs trying to impress people, people posting cars their partner pays for… The best one was a hairdresser posting her 10 year old Range Rover and everyone is lapping it up, it’s worth less than new Fiat 500
Going back 10 years ago I had Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I was also on LinkedIn. The only one I ever really used was Facebook though. Then I had a kind of epiphany and got rid of the lot. Turns out I could ask the firms to delete my profiles. Whether or not they actually did or not I really couldn’t say. Anyway, since then, it was the SMB and then this forum that I go on. I no longer have any other social media accounts. I’ve learned over the last year as well that mainstream media isn’t as impartial as it should or could be. The BBC in the UK and the ABC here clearly aren’t. But I’ve also learned that no matter how much I jump up and shout or rant and rave about the decline of society no one is going to hear me. It’s a scary future for our kids, although they will think it’s normal for them.
I’m hoping they impose a ban on younguns using social media to be honest mate. Eldest came in a few weeks ago and I was making her some bait, phone was unlocked on the side and she noticed the TikTok app and said “dad that’s TikTok can I go on?” I was taken aback at first and said you what? She said can I go on TikTok on your phone and I was like absolutely not how do you know what TikTok is and she looked a bit sheepish at me and shrugged her shoulders so I asked again and raised my voice slightly and told her I’m not joking, which I probably shouldn’t of bless her she didn’t know any better but she reckoned a girl in her class goes on it every night on her phone. This is the same girl who’s been getting the kids to play red light, green light which is off Squid Game so I’ve already had her coming in asking if she can watch that. She’s ****ing 5. I was straight on to the missus asking which child this is and who their parents are cos I’m gonna pull them in the yard and she said single mother and the girl has never had a father figure in her life, she fobs the bairn off to go out all weekend and has other parents from the school take her to the kids parties sometimes. Clearly just been given a phone to keep her occupied because she can’t be arsed to do it. Really sad to be honest, I wanted to tell my eldest not to knock about with her if that’s the stuff she’s doing but it’s not the bairns fault.
They’ve either introduced laws over here or are going to preventing kids from going on social media until they are 16. How on earth they expect it to be enforced is beyond me though. Zuckerberg et al have got a lot to answer for.
Would be a brilliant move imo mate. As you say though don’t think it’s easily enforceable. I think it’s South Korea where you have to upload your ID to create an account and they’re all linked to a database? Can’t see people being happy about that though
Therein lies the big problem, kids these days are more clued up on social media than the majority of adults. Especially MP's and their so called advisors. The only way would be an ID check upon signing up but that's just never going to happen.
Could maybe be a way to lock a new phone to someone’s identity as in having to put in DOB etc which would basically act like a parental control to stop them going on social media. We all know what would happen realistically though is that a black market would be set up to sell phones ready to go lol
There is some brutal tech available now. Apps can simply use your camera / voice recognition / location etc etc to build an algorithm to block use. I.E. looks young, GPS has them in school, block access. They can build profile of usage too, i.e. goes to bed at 9, up at 7, plays Minecraft = block use. Seriously if big tech companies wanted to they could block stuff. Whether they want to, or it is right too, is another question...
100%, all the talk at the moment is of AI but very few actually know what they might use it for. Something like this would be ideal. It opens up another privacy issue howey over who would develop, manage and maintain these systems and where would the personal data stored. Parliament saying they want to ban access to u16 without any idea how to back it up is why these things never get taken seriously. Especially when they managed to waste £35bn in a single financial year on the COVID app.
IT and central govt just dont go together. Tomorrow we will likely hear Reeves talking about AI as a means to cut costs. I can bet there is not one ounce of thought as to how, just lip service to an idea. The way govt handles our data leads to me think they are 10 years from any meaningful value from AI.
