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Making your kids go without smartphones could be difficult because their friends will most likely have phones and will most likely leave your kid out of events and conversations.

  • Boxy_Brown [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, even if the parents mean well, all this is really doing at the end of the day is putting the kids at a significant disadvantage compared to basically all their peers lol. Smartphones aren't going anywhere, just like the personal computers/cell phones before them, and denying that reality is only going to make it harder as time goes on.

    Not saying they can't take any steps to try to curb the more negative effects of social media n stuff, but trying to go full amish about it is just silly.

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      • Boxy_Brown [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Perhaps, but I personally think it's more likely the latter and they're just a bunch of fart-sniffing pretentious idiots with more money than sense.

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      • XenuDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Devil's advocate: when their son runs for X, there will be less video evidence of him using the nword and using gamer moves on women.

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I think your comment ties back into one further up the thread, where someone said that this is good as a collective decision, and extremely bad as an individual "choice". If you send your children to a school where this is common, you get to reap the obvious benefits from your kid not having access to these harmful devices. Whereas if you make a "consumer choice" to be a responsible parent, you just set up your kid to be resentful of you, since you excluded them from one of the most basic activities that their friends have access to.

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      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Problem is, those kids will eventually get these devices, and then they have no framework for how to control their own usage. I would imagine they'd also have some catching up to do on social expectations about device usage in groups.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        If all the kids friends don't use the phone to communicate, then the problem isn't there.

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            • crime [she/her, any]
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              3 years ago

              Don't worry about it bro, giardia is natural it's good for you

                • crime [she/her, any]
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                  3 years ago

                  I think there's more overlap with the "microdosing lsd to be more productive for my boss" crowd than non-bug-eating DSA PMC radlib karens, but my exposure to the Silicon Valley tech scene is blessedly minimal

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              • D3FNC [any]
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                3 years ago

                Giardia is a pleasant walk in the park compared to cholera or dysentery. Oregon trail 2022 baby! We're back