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She caused a fire because she got distracted with Social Media. As a parent I would also confiscate electronics and probably consider therapy at that point.
Realistically she could just as well had to go to the toilet and then forget about the stove, and what are you banning then?
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On a more serious note, how does this work? Do they pay for followers, influencers to promote it, directly for articles like this? I’m really starting to think we need updated legislation for labelling ads.
There are services that sell upvotes - such as [1]. Presumably while also maintaining a large enough set of plausible-looking profiles, IP addresses, browser fingerprints etc to bypass upvote ring detection. So you don't have to pay high-profile influencers, who might be expensive or give away that it's a paid campaign. A marketing company comes up with an adequate post, posts it on one site and gets it upvoted, and…
She caused a fire because she got distracted with Social Media. As a parent I would also confiscate electronics and probably consider therapy at that point.
She caused a fire because she got distracted with Social Media. As a parent I would also confiscate electronics and probably consider therapy at that point.
Yes, it happens. I set some bacon on fire because I forgot about it when I got distracted. My wife set a jacket potato on fire because she got distracted. It happens to normal people.
> As a parent... probably consider therapy
I know who sounds like they should be in therapy, and it's not the kids.
He managed to get round it (at least until we realised) by using Facebook Messenger via the web browser on his Kindle.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
On a more serious note, how does this work? Do they pay for followers, influencers to promote it, directly for articles like this? I’m really starting to think we need updated legislation for labelling ads.
There are services that sell upvotes - such as [1]. Presumably while also maintaining a large enough set of plausible-looking profiles, IP addresses, browser fingerprints etc to bypass upvote ring detection. So you don't have to pay high-profile influencers, who might be expensive or give away that it's a paid campaign. A marketing company comes up with an adequate post, posts it on one site and gets it upvoted, and…
This reminds me of a story an older colleague told me. In ye olden days (60s or 70s) they used to have locks to fit over dial telephones, and this colleagues dad fitted a lock as punishment for running up large phone bills. You don't need to use the dial on dial telephones though, you can just use the hang up button to create the right pulse lengths, so that's what she did. Teenagers it seems don't really change that…
She caused a fire because she got distracted with Social Media. As a parent I would also confiscate electronics and probably consider therapy at that point.
> She caused a fire because she got distracted Yes, it happens. I set some bacon on fire because I forgot about it when I got distracted. My wife set a jacket potato on fire because she got distracted. It happens to normal people. > As a parent... probably consider therapy I know who sounds like they should be in therapy, and it's not the kids.
I’m with the GP. People get distracted no doubt. It’s normal. But I think the comment was about what the GP would do if put in a similar situation. If one continues to get distracted while doing something potentially dangerous, for example cooking bacon, and it happens frequently, looking at the root cause of the distraction is probably warranted.
What a creative marketing campaign
What makes you think a 2 week old social media account with an obscure name and no other matching social accounts would be used to advertise an LG Smart Refrigerator?
She caused a fire because she got distracted with Social Media. As a parent I would also confiscate electronics and probably consider therapy at that point.
1. Therapy requires mutual trust to work. Administrating therapy at this point, after turning the child into an adversary by taking away electronics as a form of punishment, would make the child think that the therapy sessions are no more than another form of punishment. Nothing useful can come out of the therapy if the child perceives the therapist as an enemy.
2. It frightens me how people turns everything that is supposed to be a part of human life into a medical condition, and treat 'therapy' as the deus ex machina that could solve all inconveniences in our social life.