@blixberrie I can’t see anyone’s live location over WhatsApp or iMessage.
My child has her location off. She can still see where her peers are.
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Spud
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Spud
@SpuddieG
Just a wee Spud, trying to find normality in this crazy world
เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2021
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You’re going to hate me. But there isn’t some major issue with kids (usually teens) using social media.
Pretending there is is intentionally deciding to fall for a moral panic.
Shambo of Luxembourg@BradfemlyWalsh
I notice that nobody wants to engage with this. You all want to wail about how we'll be thrown into some dystopian hellscape by Michaelmas if nippers can't go on Tiktok but you have nowt to say about how to actually solve the problem when many parents simply won't do their job.
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@AndyNelson1977 @loujanealasi You can video call (for free over Wi-Fi) using WhatsApp?
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@SpuddieG @loujanealasi Tbf it is a lot harder - maybe F&F are in different countries, so making calling more expensive? Maybe she's not got unlimited call minutes? Maybe she (like many modern humans) likes video interaction not just voice? Just a few scenarios off the top of my head.
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I’ve watched this interview a couple of times & it’s genuinely one of the best interviews I’ve seen.
The fact you all can’t pick up on the sarcasm just speaks volumes.
Also, can we take a minute to appreciate her communication skills. Confident, clear & to the point.
Scott Bryan@scottygb
BBC: “What was your screen time?” Student: “Nine hours.” BBC: “You’re gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?” Student: “Stare at a wall.”
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@AndyNelson1977 @loujanealasi ‘Stare at a wall’ - yes, that’s likely sarcasm, but the longer clip shows her genuinely saying (before the ‘stare at a wall’ quip) that she won’t be able to contact her friends and family without social media
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@SpuddieG @loujanealasi It's called sarcasm. Look at the eyes and smirk.
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@disco___cat @cjsnowdon If you can’t see the difference between actively playing computer games and passively scrolling endless brainrot short form videos on TikTok, there is no help for you
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@cjsnowdon Yes, no millennials or X ever spent their time playing computer games
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Bloody millennials are doing the “back in my day” thing now.
Lin Mei@linmeitalks
Why are people fighting for kids to stay addicted and glued to screens - very weird….. Most of us millennials didn’t grow up on screens and our childhood was amazing.
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@chrisinthebooks How on Earth do you ban just watching videos when anyone can do that without setting up an account?
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Lots of people saying "banning YouTube for teens only applies to logging in, not to watching videos". Where's the evidence for that in what the government has said?
Chris in the Books@chrisinthebooks
@Lord__Dexter @Sai_Ishaya_ I have a child in the banned age range and I do oppose the ban, both in general but especially for YouTube. It is not primarily a social media site. It's more like TV/streaming, and there's lots of good stuff on there. And the target age for YT Kids is the under 12s!
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@kate_eve @dreamattack1989 @AllisonPearson I still can’t believe Snapchat is actually allowed to have the feature that shows potential strangers the live location of children, tbh. It beggars belief. I know it can be switched off but I’ve seen that most of them don’t have it switched off.
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@SpuddieG @dreamattack1989 @AllisonPearson I don’t disagree about Snapchat, although I haven’t dealt with it much. WhatsApp is the worst though. I work at a school and nearly all of the SM bullying and nastiness happens via that.
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Poppy, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
The youth mental health epidemic maps on perfectly to the rise of tech and social media. Screen-based childhoods are a disaster. People in 50 years will look back and think, What the hell were they doing?
Smartphones are as dangerous as drugs for a child.
Poppy Coburn@kafkaswife
I suppose it’s too much to ask the Conservative Party to actually bother to look at the academic consensus on teenage social media use and mental health outcomes, which has found NO EVIDENCE the two are connected. Why bother with a silly little thing like the truth when such a golden opportunity to censor speech has presented itself?
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@Nebulous86 @dreamattack1989 @AllisonPearson Ignoring it won’t stop bullies posting derogatory/abusive content about you online for all your peers to see, unfortunately. A friend of mine’s child had this so bad the police ended up getting involved.
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@SpuddieG @dreamattack1989 @AllisonPearson Here's how you avoid 24/7 online bullying today: stop looking at your phone or going on social media.
There are all sorts of tools, including blocking people.
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@Nebulous86 @dreamattack1989 @AllisonPearson I was bullied in the 1980s/90s, yes it was a huge problem. But at least when I went home from school I could get away from the bullies for a while. Being able to be hounded by your bullies 24/7 must be horrendous
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@dreamattack1989 @AllisonPearson Because bullying never existed before the days of social media.
This should be for parents to decide with their kids, based on what each individual kid is like.
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@kate_eve @dreamattack1989 @AllisonPearson You’re right about YouTube - but Snapchat is absolutely toxic for exclusion bullying. Allows teens to see where all their friends are in real time - absolutely horrible for a 13/14 year old girl to see her friends have all decided to go out without inviting her
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@dreamattack1989 @AllisonPearson Most online bullying happens via WhatsApp, which has not been banned. It doesn’t happen via YouTube.
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@ClareCraigPath @laworfiction I was vocally anti-lockdown, especially school closures. I support this ban. I feel like I’m the only one on the planet though.
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There is a big difference between lockdown sceptics and vaccine sceptics.
Even in retrospect, even after being surrounded by freedom fighters for years, some people just do not (cannot?) get it.
Dr Aseem Malhotra@DrAseemMalhotra
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@Limiteds__ @helloitschrisg @Xhakaed I don’t agree with banning YouTube, no. I don’t see how that’s being classed as social media tbh
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@SpuddieG @helloitschrisg @Xhakaed If you’re saying it’s normal in any capacity to not have access to YouTube in the year of 2026 you are just being ridiculous
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There used to be accessible media dedicated to children and teens on TV, and loads of educational programming.
CBBC etc basically doesn’t exist anymore. They shifted all these things to online spaces and now telling children to come offline while providing no alternatives? Idk
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@ShakinthatChalk My daughter struggled with maths after moving to secondary school. I asked for some help for her. Teacher directed me to BBC Bitesize 🤯
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@serialsockthief My 15 year old recently asked me to take her phone completely away from her when she has any school work to do as she has noticed it makes her procrastinate about getting it done and makes her feel ‘a bit grotty really’.
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Interesting to see these kids on the news talking about the social media ban, how they broadly support it and even seem quite relieved. Like they’re already tired of the role it plays in their lives and the way it dominates everything. Hmm.
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@Andyc32 @WestminsterWAG And no, your parents can’t make you feel better about it when you’re a teenager and all you want is to fit in with your peers.
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@Andyc32 @WestminsterWAG As someone brought up (in 80s/90s) by a strict mum who wouldn’t let me watch anything that everyone else was watching or have anything that everyone else had, that had its own harms. Being bullied for being the odd one out, or not being able to join in with pals is horrible.
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Banning social media for kids is a start, but it’s complicated and doesn’t go far enough. Much simpler would be to just restrict smartphone use to the over-16s. That way kids can grow up without the adult world, with all its depravity, being funneled directly into their brains via online porn and - yes - social media. They can phone their friends/parents/school on a bog standard brick phone and access the internet (when they need to) in a supervised environment. If none of them are allowed smartphones, then it becomes so much easier for parents and teachers to safeguard. Most responsible parents manage to hold off until secondary school (11-plus) but once they get there it’s almost impossible to exercise restrictions because to do so makes your child a pariah. So just simpler not to have them in the first place. That’s what all the most successful heads do - they just don’t allow the things in school.
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@BradfemlyWalsh Same, because my son got croup twice and needed steroids!!
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When my son was tiny, social services rang to check on us because we'd taken our son to A&E twice in 6 months, because of bronchiolitis and him bumping his head when first walking. The system should flag this stuff.
Where's the fucking safeguarding for such obvious abuse as this?
Lissa Evans@LissaKEvans
@robjessel16 @tlitb I can’t understand so many things about this placement (and I speak both as an adoptive parent and as an ex A&E doctor). Multiple visits to casualty with such a young child (a child with bruising)!is an enormous red flag. Where was the scrutiny? Why did no-one *think*??
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