Teens Who Say No to Social Media

Post by aedron » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 12:20 PM UTC

hourislate wrote: post #41

Having trouble getting the article in its entirety but I don't allow my kids to use facebook or any other of the other social media services. I want them to have some level of privacy for as long as they can. They can txt, call or meet their friends. They don't need facebook to do that. Some great info on the subject can be found in "Future Crimes" - Marc Goodman . Everyone should give it a read. An excerpt from the…

All of that was what we fretted about years ago. It turned out Facebook has been exceedingly inept at targeted advertising, in spite of all that information. And everyone these days knows that clicking a 'like' button just means signing up for advertising from some company. Once again, global crisis averted.

Post by cmurf » Mon, Sep 05, 2016, 4:23 PM UTC

Animats wrote: post #60

As a horse owner, I see teens who don't use phones very much. They all have smartphones, and some even have riding breeches (traditionally pocketless) with smartphone pockets on the thigh. They make and receive calls, and they text, but they don't use their phones much unless communicating. They talk to each other, the adults, and the horses. It's the total opposite of the nearby Starbucks near the high school, which…

Haha, or a bad neighborhood. I'm laughing at, "honey, we need to figure out if we're sending Jake to dance camp or a bad neighborhood this summer..." Of course he's going to dance camp but the idea of sending a kid to a bad neighborhood sounds kinda funny. Now, some of his friends on the other hand...

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