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I kinda disagree with this if only because Iād want my kid to be introduced to the Internet while Iām there to make sure theyāre not plunging into the deep end.
If you donāt give him access until theyāre 11, theyāre gonna access it via their friends at age 8.
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You know you kind of pointed something that I thought felt a bit strange over my primary school. Like my classmates would just be friends with everyone or at least be more generous in thought, even in middle school but that kind of dissapeared in high school.
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that will probably be the case ,
which i wouldnt mind if my kid goes to his friends house to watch fortnite i rather him do that than do it in my house
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promote connection and all that
if they go on a rabbit hole on some weird shit they will be friends for life
if youāre alone in your room sitting on your phone all day u are fucking yourself
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its not strange, thats normal human behaviour iām pretty sure its the case everywhere
kids are gonna be like āāwow you have blond hairāā and become friends randomly cause theyāre kids and donāt give a shit about social stuff yet
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the way i became freidsn with my first friend was bc we both liked asdf movie so if u think about it the itnernet was good
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Iām not sure if I agree that too much internet can cause you problems. But I know that thereās consensus that the internet stimulation can make you get hit with too much dopamine making you irritable and maybe a little cold because of it. Thereās also that it hurts your attention span which might come across as the person being more airheaded and if people donāt pause to reflect on what theyāre consuming they can absorb fringe content.
Iāve spent every day for a long time in the front of the screen, Iām personally not sure if it affected me too much in my mental development. I know that it made me have more attention deficiency and more hyperactive as a kid, but it was still fine which would make me a little slow on understanding things in class because I would just pace out.
I was also very emotionally unstable as a kid so Iād listen to songs to artificially make me happy as I would be very emotionally affected by how happy or sad or horror a song sounds like it affects me even right now. Today I have like a bad song in my head and it makes me feel particularly sad.
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there was people rabid over tiktok being unavailable for like 12 hours in the us
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Yeah youāre right. I donāt think kids quite perceive societal boxes so they arenāt as picky or maybe even judgemental.
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If youād let 12-year-old Silviu without internet for 12 hours. Heād just mentally dream himself as a character in Ace Attorney while investigating with Apollo some mysterious dissapearances in the local town.
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I think what is happening here is that the fast paced content is like eye candy which makes kids addicted to those dopamine hits. But Iām not sure how it works? Iād say that the same would apply to child!me, yet I wouldnāt be like Iāve evaded from a mental institute.
think there was a video on cocomelon making kids irritable and giving them other issues but i dont know if those claims are true
i assume similar applies to tiktok since you push a button and its a new scene whenever you get bored
i watched some youtube short and because there was no payoff for like 30 seconds half the comments were āwow youāre really testing my patience with this oneā
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itās little consistent dopamine hits that never stop that, whilst long term are worse for your brain than big payoffs, gets your brain (and especially adolescents) hooked 'cause it registers a constant little hit far more than a break and then a big hit
i canāt say i know a lot about the phenomenon and iām not going to say iām immune to it, i especially donāt want to try tiktok incase it actually works on me, but thatās around what i think is going on
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Wait I think I remember. I would also be more connected online so I didnāt quite see a point to interact with people offline? Come to think of it, until mid-highschool I would be rather distant and antisocial, even though I was pretty accepting and kind to my long-lasting BFF and her friends she made on the way.
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yeah i imagine in a classroom of 8 year olds today half of them are probably gaming by themselves during break lol so my idea of what id do with my kid is misguided
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More thought to it. I think if the respective child is just an aggressive toddler, probably taking away their only source of good dopamine goodness makes them go erratic. Itās probably different to each kid to what degree they would desperately want to continue watching cocomelon.
If youād make me go off the internet as a child, I know I would be left bored but if I had other activities I wouldnāt mind.
give a kid a book instead highkey
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My parents did this and iām still messed up tbh
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