Comment on Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development?
paultimate14@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Perhaps one day humanity will look back and ask whether the lack of Internet in the thousands of years prior damaged the development of everyone who grew up without it
galoisghost@aussie.zone 4 months ago
And that’s the thing to expand on my other comment. Kids are who are restricted from access to devices and the internet are at a complete disadvantage to those that aren’t. But it does need to be monitored by parents.
I’ve heard of both sides from my own kids. There are kids who have been totally restricted who have secret accounts on social media and kids who had no restrictions who had social media accounts that were completely public when they were nine.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It does absolutely not need to be monitored by parents. How is a child who’s being abused going to be able to get help or information offline if their parents are monitoring and filtering their internet? We need a legal right to unfiltered internet. Which is not to say we shouldn’t, as equals, educate children about the risks of the Internet.