Somebody has to figure out a way to get kids off the internet.
You mean, like simply not giving them a smartphone? By simply controlling what your kids are doing, just like how humanity has done it for thousands of years, until the last 20 years or so when parents started to rely on technology to do the "parenting"?
Ding Ding Ding! Maybe don't give your 11 year old a smartphone. And no, just cuz Beck from the other class has one doesn't mean YOU should get one. It's one of the most dangerous things aside for a gun or drugs that you can give a kid and just ignore. I started on the net at 15 and the next was a totally different place back then. Now I wouldn't without subervision give a kid a phone at that age.
That may be true, but parental responsibility is not a solution. It's just not. Somebody has to figure out a way to get kids off the internet.
You mean, like simply not giving them a smartphone? By simply controlling what your kids are doing, just like how humanity has done it for thousands of years, until the last 20 years or so when parents started to rely on technology to do the "parenting"?
Ding Ding Ding! Maybe don't give your 11 year old a smartphone. And no, just cuz Beck from the other class has one doesn't mean YOU should get one. It's one of the most dangerous things aside for a gun or drugs that you can give a kid and just ignore. I started on the net at 15 and the next was a totally different place back then. Now I wouldn't without subervision give a kid a phone at that age.
Working for hours to download and reassemble a few uuencoded low resolution images from Usenet forums was a learning experience, at least.
I would love it if I could choose to not allow other people's kids to have smartphones. I really would. Sounds beautifully simple.