Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids

Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I like and understand where you’re going, but I can offer some actual experience. I learned my legal first name at 8.

  It didn’t go down well (I cried because the teacher didn’t call my name and sent me to the school office to get it sorted) and I had a weird complex about the real name into high school. There’s no rhyme or reason to the two names, so it is actually sort of surprising to pair the two. To this day I still go by the nickname I thought was my real name. My nieces and nephews still enjoy discovering my real name and calling me by it thinking it’s a big secret they’ve discovered. I still have to explain it a hundred times a year to new coworkers and acquaintances.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I might be slightly facetious in my comment.

    If I were to be slightly more earnest, I would say that the authoritarian concepts they learn from enforcement of arbitrary restrictions like “no screens in the bedroom” are far more harmful to their well-being than the information they could put on those screens.

    The best “tech rule” I could give instill in them is an understanding of the concept of “click bait”. The sooner I can immunize them to paywalls and microtransactions, the better.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Your initial comment did not make this clear. I thought you where serious.

      Big agree on the have them understand before draconian rules. Though some stuff is just gonna be walled off on my home network.

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean, I was somewhat serious. Maybe not the “you don’t get to know your home address until you’re 10 years old” part.

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    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Have you had any sucess with explaining the concept of clickbaiting and the whole predatory environment of the internet? I’ve tried, so many times, in different ways, with different examples and analogies. It just doesn’t really stick, they are simply too inexperienced to fully understand the consequences and will fall prey to it the next day or two.

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I still fall for it from time to time. I used to show them the headlines that caught me; they showed me the ones that caught them.

        I think showing them how to use PiHole or some other content filtering would be useful. Empower them to shape their own world.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    … Were you not in school before 8 years old?

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yet people would call me an insecure creepy troll if I said I have dozens of different nicknames on the same general spaces.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What would compel you to announce the multitude of screen names you’ve used over the years? Never practice necromancy. A dead name stays dead; it is never to be referred to by the living.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I dunno, maybe because some of them are still used in other places, or for other purposes =\

      It’s unfortunately not quite dead - the Internet is scraped and not anonymous, but pseudonymous, and a bearer of a pseudonym can usually be discovered. If someone really wants it, of course.

      But that’s a good thought, maybe it’s time for a few new names.

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