• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Yeah it’s really more about monitoring usage and educating them. The tablet/phone is not a babysitter, but many parents seem to treat it like one.

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      7 hours ago

      I got way too much unrestricted access to the internet and I know it fucked me up. I was already genetically predisposed to having bad mental health but basically unrestricted internet access from the age of 8 did not help.

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        7 hours ago

        The days of dial up were the wild west online. Waiting sometimes hours for your music and porn to download through Kazaa or Limewire. And inevitably getting something totally unrelated just to troll you.