I have four daughters that I never let on social media. They are the intelligent, bright, and can use technology well. Your kids are not missing anything by not being on social media. If it is corporate ran it is cancer period.
Seriously scared about my kids getting to be old enough to want social media. It’s already so tough trying to explain why I don’t want them watching certain YouTubers.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 days ago
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Teaching them about logical fallacies and how to spot them may be the best defense against these types of personalities imo. Many influencers that you’re concerned about try to prey upon these fallacies, so teaching your kids to spot them can help them to realize those people are full of shit.
Curating their content a bit to include more people you want them to be like can help as well, at least then they can have good people to look up to.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Oh for sure. One of my kids favorite personalities is Mark Rober, who I also mostly approve of. It’s just tough when he does collabs with people who I think are shallow and devoid of content, like Unspeakable. He strikes me as the type of channel who would be a stepping stone to mens rights/incel and then Joe Rogan.
Shayeta@feddit.org 3 days ago
Mark Rober sold out to a content company a couple of years ago, that’s why. Before that he used to be an actually good engineering channel. These days it is mostly just sponsored slop.
The closest alternative I can recommend is Stuff Made Here.