• Flax@feddit.uk
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      8 hours ago

      They need to do a PHD before getting internet access in my family

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        4 hours ago

        i can’t tell if alot of these answers are sarcastic or not…

        i know social media as a whole is predominantly affluent rich people with too much time on their hands, so maybe that’s just what this demographic is about idk. but surely these people know if you coddle too much the second these kids leave the nest they’re going to make an absolute shitload of mistakes

        better to make those mistakes young in relatively controlled environment, teach critical analysis/how to avoid scams/watch out for predatory behavior etc. than to try and pretend it doesn’t exist through a walled garden

        you can’t stay in walled garden forever, at some point someone is either escaping, breaking in, or the walls just crumbling down

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          i can’t tell if alot of these answers are sarcastic or not…

          I was being serious. Maybe college is an exaggeration but I really do think kids shouldn’t get internet until at least highschool.

          I admit it’s mostly bias. I turned out fine therefore I think the way I was raised is good.

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        7 hours ago

        Maybe.

        When I was a kid we didn’t have internet until highschool. We’d borrow mom’s laptop for homework and smuggle some games on the way. It made us very… resourceful. Internet was this magical inaccessible thing. I remember when our school gave us tablets with restricted internet, I guessed my math teacher’s password based on how he typed and used his account it to access the full internet.

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          Me either, but only because there was no internet til high school.

          Then I got my dad’s hand-me-down PowerMac g3 in my room. 300MHz of glory, downloading pics of titties one column at a time. Good times. 🥹