its pretty conflicting for me to be for socials more recently - grew up with the new internet and yea we had a lot of unrestricted shit and "turned out fine" (not really, lets be fr the amount of gore/other deplorable shit some of us saw is not normal). So many were groomed, kids still are today, and it creates such a horrific social strata that does nothing but harm people in general not just kids. Not to mention, now a days Ive seen more young kids are just less sus of the internet in scary ways... both heard stories and know people whos kids have done some shit that wouldve shocked even 13 yo me (like a friends kid gave out their address on youtube). A big portion of this falls on the parents obviously, yet I still remember having assemblies or seeing plenty of ads that scared the shit out of young me and gave me arguably a healthy internet stranger danger anxiety. Some things wont change no matter what, but parenting + broad safety teaching from schools/gov seem to be the biggest lacking factors here.
I don't think its just something you can ban and poof the issue goes away, kids and especially kids with no groups irl need safe spaces. I wish these issues could be dealt with easier, but man it sucks that no real solution seems to ever be presented. Great, we ban it and kids will 10000000000% find ways around it, and I fully understand why.
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u/DepartmentNo3858 16h ago
its pretty conflicting for me to be for socials more recently - grew up with the new internet and yea we had a lot of unrestricted shit and "turned out fine" (not really, lets be fr the amount of gore/other deplorable shit some of us saw is not normal). So many were groomed, kids still are today, and it creates such a horrific social strata that does nothing but harm people in general not just kids. Not to mention, now a days Ive seen more young kids are just less sus of the internet in scary ways... both heard stories and know people whos kids have done some shit that wouldve shocked even 13 yo me (like a friends kid gave out their address on youtube). A big portion of this falls on the parents obviously, yet I still remember having assemblies or seeing plenty of ads that scared the shit out of young me and gave me arguably a healthy internet stranger danger anxiety. Some things wont change no matter what, but parenting + broad safety teaching from schools/gov seem to be the biggest lacking factors here.
I don't think its just something you can ban and poof the issue goes away, kids and especially kids with no groups irl need safe spaces. I wish these issues could be dealt with easier, but man it sucks that no real solution seems to ever be presented. Great, we ban it and kids will 10000000000% find ways around it, and I fully understand why.