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<blockquote data-quote="Nandina" data-source="post: 764143" data-attributes="member: 23742"><p>I’m with you 200Meters. I don’t have any of those social media accounts either. And I agree with the inyourface comment. People have never been so hateful. Or unnecessarily opinionated. It is, for some people, a good way to stay in touch with family and friends. But I think now, unfortunately, the bad far outweighs the good.</p><p></p><p>Nearly 10 years ago when my son was about 13, he wanted a facebook account. I didn’t want him to have one because he had a habit of veering off into inappropriate content. But guess what? There wasn’t a thing I could do to keep my son off Facebook, because at the ripe ol’ age of 13, Facebook gives kids the right to have their own account regardless of parental concern or permission. And really, they could start younger, because all they had to do was check a box that said they were 13. So, I monitored my son closely at home, but he would sneak and use it at school!</p><p></p><p>Fast forward about 10 years and Facebook is finally realizing (duh) that there needed to be some restraints on younger children. They are now working on that issue but at what cost? Teen suicides, depression and anxiety, loneliness and plenty of hateful speech. And Facebook waited way too long and made way too much money before doing anything about it. And whatever they do, I doubt if it will be enough.</p><p></p><p>I am a (somewhat inactive) member of Reddit because there are some topics I am interested in, mainly cooking, but I don’t like how they rate every little reply to a post. Sometimes it just seems like a popularity contest. And I’ve seen the overly used f-bomb as an adjective, verb, adverb and noun; I guess for lack of a better vocabulary, lol <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" /></p><p>Well, on second thought, maybe not an adverb…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nandina, post: 764143, member: 23742"] I’m with you 200Meters. I don’t have any of those social media accounts either. And I agree with the inyourface comment. People have never been so hateful. Or unnecessarily opinionated. It is, for some people, a good way to stay in touch with family and friends. But I think now, unfortunately, the bad far outweighs the good. Nearly 10 years ago when my son was about 13, he wanted a facebook account. I didn’t want him to have one because he had a habit of veering off into inappropriate content. But guess what? There wasn’t a thing I could do to keep my son off Facebook, because at the ripe ol’ age of 13, Facebook gives kids the right to have their own account regardless of parental concern or permission. And really, they could start younger, because all they had to do was check a box that said they were 13. So, I monitored my son closely at home, but he would sneak and use it at school! Fast forward about 10 years and Facebook is finally realizing (duh) that there needed to be some restraints on younger children. They are now working on that issue but at what cost? Teen suicides, depression and anxiety, loneliness and plenty of hateful speech. And Facebook waited way too long and made way too much money before doing anything about it. And whatever they do, I doubt if it will be enough. I am a (somewhat inactive) member of Reddit because there are some topics I am interested in, mainly cooking, but I don’t like how they rate every little reply to a post. Sometimes it just seems like a popularity contest. And I’ve seen the overly used f-bomb as an adjective, verb, adverb and noun; I guess for lack of a better vocabulary, lol 😉 Well, on second thought, maybe not an adverb… [/QUOTE]
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