YouTube has become the world's nanny • Hacker News Board

Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny

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Post by mrsubletbot » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 2:50 PM UTC

wnolens wrote: post #386

mrsubletbot wrote: post #375

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I was in the same exact boat as you. If you have uBlock origin, you can add these custom filters to remove shorts: https://ronangelo.com/how-to-hide-shorts-videos-on-youtube/ I have not missed them one bit, nor had any desire to unblock them. Like you, I would mindlessly watch them in between tasks at work, and felt duller and worse for it every time my little binge ended. I also got a dumbphone, which I honestly lov…

Thanks. Good tip for desktop, will install. But the main vector for me is my phone. Which dumbphone did you pick up?

I ended up grabbing the light phone 2. I really have been enjoying it!

Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny

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Post by v-erne » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 9:46 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #331

Loughla wrote: post #267

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We had the same rule, and modified it to include type of games. Phone games have time limits, unless it's things like Dragonbox, flow free, or other "educational" games (at least games that require some kind of thinking) approved by us beforehand, including minecraft. Because 99.999% of games for children are just absolute trash stuffed full of ads. Any PC game that is age appropriate gets a pass, but only if it's ev…

> As a non-tech person, the one thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to encourage 'tinkering' in an active way. Let me know if you ever figure out - I feel I'll be facing the same problem in the next few years. From my tech person perspective, I agree with your summary: advances in computer tech and consumer product design have done away with tinkering: where it isn't actively discouraged, it's still hard a…

And why should tinkering be easy ? The whole point of it is understanding things beyond the initial use and this is the mindset that, I believe, only handful of people have (like one in ten). I distinctly remember that when I was tinkering in high school with things most of my peers were tinkering with people (a.k.a living life). So maybe, just maybe, it does not really matter if tinkering is easy or not - because its mostly character that decides if You will be into it or not (I subscribe more to nature then nurture side).

And I honestly question if my children should waste their life on things instead of people.

Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny

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Post by jahsome » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 11:23 PM UTC

thundergolfer wrote: post #234

jackvalentine wrote: post #166

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I take your point, but isn’t it possible that every generation was right because they feared that one day we’d go too far and weren’t sure if we were at that point yet? And one day, we may go too far. We might have already.

There’s a distinct lack of Neil Postman in this HN comment section. given the arguments being made in favor of YouTube here, his most relevant retort would be “educational television doesn’t teach children to love learning, it teaches them to love television.” It’s in some way the blind leading the blind; television and smartphone addicted parents rationalizing why it’s ok for their kids to be YouTube and IPad addict…

Can't the other side of that coin be true?

Luddites ranting about the impending of society as a result of the latest tech?

The tech is a tool. Your example is key. I don't shove the educational tools at the kids and expect magic. I ask them what they're using it for.

The issue isn't the tech. It's the inherent generational superiority and absentee parenting.