Submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://variety.com/vip/gen-alpha-media-habits-come-into-focus-paramount-study-1235898229/
Media study on Gen Alpha kids show ‘purposeful participation’ over ‘mindless consumption’ of media and increased privacy consciousness over previous gen::Gen Alpha kids are protective of their personal data online and enjoy media that allows them to control their experiences with content.
The kids are alright.
As my username implies, I sometimes fall out of the loop on things. Who are gen Alpha now please? Should I tell them to not touch the thermostat? (just kidding, it’s all locked down, I’m an old geek).
Everyone who is 14 and younger are gen Alpha. I think Beta gen will be starting perhaps in a year or two.
Not hard to move the needle from zero.
Cynicism aside, I’m cautiously optimistic…and then I remember who the parents are of these kids.
God knows I watched my peers fucking up their own kids decades ago.
Every new generation is shit, but guess what, they aren’t ones in power. If you want change it’s the boomer in charge who you should be talking about. This is the world they built, it’s not the kids fault they’re inheriting a burning house.
Yah, I’m not buying it. If they’re more private, it’s starting from such a terrible baseline as to be imperceptible. Every teenager I’ve seen would sell their baby brother for 10 seconds of Tiktok viewing.
Eh, it‘s pretty hard to evaluate a generation‘s habits when some of them aren‘t even born yet.
When do we get to the part where we start blaming them for everything? Maybe once they’ve reached median 30s and the world is still fucked?
I know that is a joke but it’s not like 30yos have much control over the world either.
It took quite a few people flying through windshields and getting impaled on steering wheels before the next generation decided that seat belts were a good idea. This is pretty typical human behavior
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I never understood Gen Z’s mindset to privacy. Caught my son telling people lots of personal info on chat roulette at one point, and had to have a long discussion. This was after already telling him about the fact that you shouldn’t just tell people online, or strangers, personal details. Never mind strangers online.
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Bruh shouldnt be lettin ur son have unlimmited internet access. Set up a bunch of blocks and limmits and once they figure how to bypass it then they can do what they please
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
You ever tried to keep a kid from accessing things? My network was parent controlled out the ass, and all it really takes is going over to a friends house, or borrowing a relatives iPad, and he had free rein on the internet.
Not to mention the school had an unrestricted network with a simple 8 character password certain students figured out.
It’s not as simple as “just set up blocks.” 🤦🏻♂️
EatATaco@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You did the right thing by guiding them when you caught them doing something dangerous,.
But that’s your kid. You raised them. They didn’t know this because you hadn’t taught them yet. Don’t blame the year they were born.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Looking at generations has more to it than simple ageism. Much of human behavior is a product of their culture, their surroundings. These surroundings change over time, and in the modern world, very rapidly. It’s the music, the films, books, memes, sayings, attitudes etc.
Discrimination is definitely something we want to avoid. But completely ignoring these unique cultural influences that change year-to-year, and are a natural part of growing up, is simply foolish. Parents do not, and should not, simply bear 100% responsibility for what their kids do, when their kids are not, and should not be, complete and utter slaves.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Not always how it works unfortunately. I had previously sat him down and told him all of this, including things like the fact that chat roulette type sites aren’t safe. “But my friends all do it” is pretty much the only thing he said when I asked him why he thought this would be okay.
Believe me, I’m a product of the early and mostly unregulated web, I’ve seen it at its best and worst. There was no way I was letting him access the internet without multiple talks on safety.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yep.
My father schooled me on similar issues, decadesbefore the internet.
Don’t talk about family business (both family stuff and business stuff, as he was self employed), to people. It’s none if their business.
As kids we tend to be naïve.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’d also throw in some falsehoods for good measure, just to blur the trail, like how I grew up Antarctica where my 3 dads raised me to work in fintech, but I went my own way, so now I’m estranged from 2 of them