Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone

• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All smartphones can access social media. But they also have some really good (mostly intuitive) parental controls. So if you don’t want you kid on Facebook just block it.

  What does it matter if the child is on a phone all day va on a computer all day? Sure you can’t really do that in class, but what about the other 16 hours of the day?

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But they also have some really good (mostly intuitive) parental controls. So if you don’t want you kid on Facebook just block it.

    Fair point, I don’t know anything about that.

    What does it matter if the child is on a phone all day va on a computer all day?

    You’re…joking, right? I just explained that in the comment you just replied to.

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is false information. You can limit what apps they have with safeguards with many different services. Google family, Samsung family share and Microsoft family all have limited app options where you can let through whatever you think is good enough. You can also only allow a certain amount of hours for each app on a daily basis. There are so many safeguards if you look it’s not difficult.

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