Off Topic Social Media and the death of Twitter

Have you got children, Clovis?

 

Well it's in their blood after all.

 

And just like that the young people of Australia were freed.

Come on UK, don’t pussy out. You sorted smoking, you can do this.

 

I would be interested to see how they plan to implement this.

 

If YOU want to keep your kids off social media it's fairly simple.If MY adult children don't want to keep their kids off social media,that too is also fairly simple.

It doesn't require laws enshrined through parliament,it requires parental control...

 

Criticising parents is political suicide. No party is going to say ‘**** parents need to do better’. That’s why it’s easier for the government to just fob the responsibility to schools or someone else they don’t mind throwing under the bus. Or they try to do the parent’s job for them.

Anything to absolve **** parents from their responsibility to the human beings they created.

 

It’s not fairly simple at all. The actual physical act of keeping your own child off social media, sure. But when all their friends and classmates are using it and they’re missing out on important social interactions, then it becomes difficult to disadvantage them. You’re not really helping them out by isolating them.

 

The govt will in a relatively short time make digital ID compulsory for everybody on the pretext that too many U16’s are slipping through the net. This will be the end of anonymity on the internet. Ultimately govt’s will control the content of the internet. Like China does.

 

It'll be easy for them, kids will never find a way to log on to banned sites. We all know those under the age of sixteen know feck all about computing, and none of us have ever asked our eight year old grand child to solve an IT problem, oh ...


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Much depends on how much you want outside influences to determine your children's lives? We never had social media when I was a kid in the 60's/70's but to me it's no different than some kids were allowed to do things,other's not.

I was brought up in Driffield and my old lady would give me money on a Saturday if I wanted to go to Boothferry,other mates weren't allowed,it was too far/dangerous/whatever..Where they isolated or disadvantaged or maybe I was just neglected?...(tongue firmly in cheek)?

Point being,Ted Heath wasn't required to pass laws on it,it was a parental choice...

 

That’s a bit different, what you’re talking about there is a hobby really, and only a smaller percentage would be bothered about going to Boothferry. It would probably be a closer comparison to home schooling. Social media plays as big, if not a bigger part in the social lives of today’s kids than the school day.

 

It's scientifically proven poison for the mental health of a large percentage of young teenagers, so good for Australia. France next hopefully.

 

There was little rescription on porn mags, most people had a hedge in their neighbourhood.

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Are you sure you didn't mean bush?

 

Some big bushes back in the day.


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Yep

 

pornhub have never asked for any of that from me!

 

They've tried that, it doesn't work en masse. There's only so many times you can keep kicking the can down the road and trusting the public to do the right thing.

Parents don't want their kids smoking, yet kids were still smoking and children as young as primary age were buying vapes. So what did they do? Made it law that people born after a certain date couldn't buy cigs. You'll still get a tiny minority of kids getting their hands on them by nicking them off their parents, but by and large it's stopped a generation from starting smoking and that's never going to be a bad thing.

We had this bullshit with the vaccine and now there's people who won't ever take one again, which is going to have serious implications if there's another pandemic. Social media isn't good for children to use for a number of reasons, for one because politics has become so poisonous on both sides that it's begun shamelessly taking aim at those age groups via social media.

We have a situation where roughly 1 in 5 children are obese the moment, how's that parenting going?