Posted on 03/09/2018 5:44:29 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
My daughter is ten. She wants me to download the Musical.ly app on my phone so she can make funny lip-sync videos. Everyone has it, she whines, even the kid whose mom is an FBI agent/social worker/pediatrician/nun.
Wow. Well. In that case…
I download the app while she’s at school but it won’t let me explore without an account. I create a profile under Chardonaynay47, only to delete that and opt for something less momish — gummibear9.
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Busy woman!
What are we talking about here?
A woman who is an FBI agent/social worker/pediatrician/nun.
Can’t keep a job???
Evil. Innocent seeming apps that have a very dark side, especially for kids.
It’s hard for me to imagine looking back at the rise of social media/smart phones in a few decades and deciding it was this really great thing for society.
Freegards
Ignore his sarcastic comment and read the article.
Our youngest is almost 30. We have already lived this out. It was bad then, so very much worse now.
If you wanted people to read the article then why didn’t you post it?
EXCELLENT article.
I’ve emailed it to some parents/grandparents who need to see it. Even those who carefully watch what their kids are doing online need to see this.
So her child is a Son of a Bi...
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Because I didn’t have permission from the author to do it. That’s how things work in a polite society.
How social media apps are destroying our kids. Really scary stuff. Worth a read. Kids are using a dozen new social media apps I’ve never heard of.
I don’t think she’s referring to one woman. I think she could have used some “ors” in there.
That was blisteringly sad and depressing.
I always thought I had a tough time growing up. Not because of anything or anyone else for the most part. I just had a hard time understanding things, nothing ever came easy, and it weighed heavily on me.
But I could be a kid.
I could do kid things. I could be excited about things that kids were excited about. I could go on rope swings, swim in the ocean as long as I wanted, climb trees, build models, play baseball, ride a bike. I could look at the stars and wonder about them. I could be excited about my first library card. I could camp out in my front yard and sleep with three friends, all of us in a parachute tied between trees, under the stars.
I could be a kid.
That broke my heart to read that linked article. Just broke my heart. How can a kid have access to that, and be a kid?
How?
This article is great and a must read. For parents of young kids, a REALLY must read.
I’d like to do this for my little daughter. Get an account ready for a huge cash gift if she stays off social media until she is 16. It is gruesome what all is out there, and the horrible self images and ideas put into kids’ heads. After 16 it can’t do as much damage.
I agree.
But she just had to get in a dig at Pres. Trump.
I'm not sure which Apollo era astronaut said, "I thought we would have colonies on Mars by now but you gave us facebook instead."
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