Posted on 10/21/2014 10:05:39 AM PDT by Morgana
Um...huh?
My wife and I are continually amused wherever we go, it seems like the great majority of teens have their devices out doing whatever...texting, playing games, or just doing something with them. It's like the movie "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" ...the evil outer space aliens will get all the humans looking at their electronic toys while they send subliminal messages through the devices. Strange era we live in.
I teach piano to a 10 year old boy who is ADHD.
Every lesson, I had to pry the tablet from his (warm, living) hands amid screams and howls of agony from him, which are not unlike withdrawal symptoms from opiates.
It makes me dread Tuesdays.
Although it’s not popular here to say so, I agree with you, for similar reasons. The sanctions against child porn have correctly been made so harsh that most adults with a brain would never go looking for it, but perhaps kids lack that level of self-control. Or maybe the question was worded in such a way that a “sexted” image of a classmate or such was the reason for such a strong response.
I am NOT disagreeing with protecting children under the age of consent, but neither do I think some magic happens inside the human brain at a specific age that makes it possible to process information differently. People mature at different rates and some obviously never learn to deal with porn (or booze, anger, drugs, or many other things) in a mature way. Enforcing an “Age of Consent” is probably the best we can do.
You might want to check that iPad to see if there's any remote monitoring software installed on a hidden partition of the hard drive. Schools have been doing this and spying on the kids even when the kids are at home in their bedrooms.
http://www.businessinsider.com/school-that-spied-on-students-with-laptop-cameras-says-it-was-security-feature-2010-2
The time will come when WBill Jr. will need one for school. Until then, no dice.
Nothing drives me crazier than watching 6-18 year olds (or even younger) sitting around at an event and twiddling with a @%$@# touchscreen. Put it down and experience life, for Pete's sake!
Of course, the parents are just as bad, so the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I guess.
Yikes!
Kindles also have browsers that can get on the Internet..,
Correlation doesn't equal causation, but I think that would be a question worth asking.....
Oh yea.....we even have a camp reunion. I don’t go to my class reunion but damn sure go to my camp reunion.
Yep. Don’t think the thought hasn’t crossed my mind.
Well, they do, but the reading kindles are very slow and the graphics virtually non-existent.
Original kindle fire is also slow - slow processor uses wifi - but the pages are very, very small. Imagine a web page on a 7" display.
Doubt kids can get into too much on their kindles.
Honeslty I dont think its wrong for adults to view consenting adults. Despite the changing times, I just dont think its good for kids.
Their time will come dont ruin it!
“Well, they do, but the reading kindles are very slow and the graphics virtually non-existent.”
I don’t use those even though someone suggested I get one. I prefer books and my house is full of them.
No graphics? Sounds like that would suck for the Science teachers at school? Wonder how that fares out?
Bye for now...i have to go to work.
“Tablet-Prying” awaits me. (sigh)
Kindle fires are color, so, again, if the textbooks are formatted for kindle the graphics would be good.
I have about 900 kindle books. My house was full of books - and I was a regular library visitor - then my grown children bought me a kindle and after a "learning" period, it is my primary reader now. I can even adjust the type size (old eyes) and I cannot do that with a book.
I dont think Mr. Marin is going to be invited to any neighborhood events. Hes just accused his neighbor’s kids of being porn addicts.
I think it’s way past time for a chastisement to make Ebola look like kids’ play (especially n the western world). And libertarians should be spared just long enough to make them suffer through the worst of it.
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