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fwoosheye · 2 years ago

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Good grief if you're younger than Minecraft you shouldn't even have any social media yet. Y'all should be out there and develop social skills and learn how to interact with people irl and stuff. Internet manners ≠ irl manners

imagining a ten year old seeing this tweet and going “damn… i can’t retweet it” before walking away sadly and kicking a can

#i've been having a work-based-training on a school for the last four weeks and followed a bunch of ten year olds #and they're good kids even if some of them have some issues but that's beside the point #my point is that there's almost a disconnect between the kids and reality #they don't get that the internet and irl don't function the same way #and that just saying 'it was a misunderstanding' won't change tone or body language or context #like it was only 20 years ago i was 10 and many of their parents are my age #internet wasn't the same thing back then #few had cell phones and the fanciest ones had colour screen #no camera or tiktok or youtube or any games with a possible exception of snake #there are a lot of things that are better today than then #but how so many parents give kids free reign over tech isn't healthy #i don't think you should read their personal email etc (unless you have a *genuin* cause to believe there's grooming or something going on)#but imo you should restrict them from tiktok and other algorithm based media until they're mature enough to understand how those sites work #and teach them how to safely navigate them and so on #i was never good at social skills and still don't think i am but as i said there's almost a disconnect sometimes #pls don't use the internet as a baby sitter if you have kids #also the use of computers all the time is actually fucking up their ability to write and spell and work on eye-hand-cordination #my writing wasn't the best when i was ten nor were my classmates #but at least we turned our letters the correct way and knew to draw the letters from the top #so that ''h'' wouldn't end up looking like an ''n'' for example #and i'm not including the dyslectic kids in this #this is true for most of the students there's only a handful who don't flip their letters and so on

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