Let's do a hypothetical,
If you had move to any other city in the US and cost wasn't a concern, where would you move?
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
DC
Boston
Seattle
Portland, OR
San Francisco
Chicago
St.Paul-Minneapolis
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
I need that pic of the memri tv guy saying hed kill himself at the airport
Same.
For the love of god tumblr stop the bots already they won’t stop emojing at me literally a danm paragraph of emoji talk
i gotta say i agree that exposing children to algorithmic content feeds is going to make them grow up with one billion new kinds of mental illnesses and it’s a serious societal problem that urgently needs addressing but it makes me v. v. v. uneasy when i see posts going around that identify this issue and come to the conclusion ‘this is why it’s important for parents to know what their kid is doing online’ and uh girls there are a lot of kids out there who would be dead if their parents knew what they were doing online
“yeah this aspect of capitalism is extremely alienating and traumatizing” and im nodding and smiling and then they add “which is why we must retreat to the safety of the family” and i start abruptly high-pitched screaming like a fire alarm
It’s really amazing how txttletale almost comes to the right conclusion, and then veers off at the last second.
And is basically asking for validation about their irrational, highly emotional knee-jerk reaction.
Also, how exactly can one tell that a lot of kids would be dead if their parents knew what they were doing? Hypotheticals aren’t proof.
Even if I assume this is hyperbole, maybe the kid is doing something that’s actually harmful, and parents need to keep them from doing that. That;s literally the job.
Why are you just completely ignoring that idea? How can you go “social media is harmful for kids” and then immediately go “parents should have no control over their kids online lives”?
>capitalism Oh, yeah, clearly it’s the algo and capitalism that are the problem, not what people are actually doing with social media. Individuals bear no responsibility at all.
Couldn’t possibly be TX trying to WD-40 a square peg into a round hole.
Also, notice the lack of any specific measures, just vague “this needs to be addressed”. Given her prior leftist leanings, five bucks says most of her ideal solutions involve government regulations.
You know, the ones that often come from people who are even more out of touch with the internet than your average modern parent.
