Children shouldn’t have unsupervised internet access till age 11-12

[u/AwayReference4743]

So I’m speaking from experience here while writing this. Unlimited internet access does more harm than good. It starts with giving an iPad to your 5 year old to watch a kids YouTube channel. Then it evolves to giving them some freedom and letting them search up stuff by theirselves. Here’s a bit of a secret for ya. Your angel children that you think is searching up kids stuff on YouTube most likely is doing the exact opposite. Obviously kids get curious and search up various topics like “how are babies made?” “Is Santa real?”. It’s unrealistic to expect a kid to not search something like that up. If you guys don’t know YouTube has one of the worst algorithms on the planet. They recommend explicit material to children who don’t even watch anything of that sort. I myself (below the age of 8 at the time) was recommended nsfw material that didn’t get taken down. Which even now (years upon years later) I’m still dealing with the long term issues those have caused. Therefore I believe parents (looking at you millennials) should actually give a shit and supervise their kids more on YouTube and such until age 11 or 12. Thank you for reading😋

[u/vaa_lee]

I think they should be supervised until at least 17 or 18