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Social Psychologist Urges 'End the Phone-Based Childhood Now' (slashdot.org)

submitted 9 months ago by 0nekoneko7 to c/psychology

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm a Millennial, who didn't have Internet until I was 11 or a smartphone until I was 27. Are you saying I'm somehow being left behind here by not being able to navigate Youtube?!

[–] surewhynotlem 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's pretentious to think you know what will end up making you obsolete.

That said, yeah, it's probably not YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I've been left behind in all sorts of ways, but to think that surfing YouTube is a skill that you need to teach your 5 year old...it just sounds like the person writing that probably sets their children in front of YouTube much of the day and is trying to justify their terrible decision-making

[–] Dadifer -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

And why are you assuming I don't know how to navigate YouTube? Lmao at thinking you need to expose young children to the YouTube algorithm, otherwise they won't understand it as teenagers or adults.

Anecdotal consensus is that young adults today who were brought up on a smartphone/tablet app-based internet generally struggle with basic computer literacy skills that many of us Millennials and Gen X have taken for granted. What you need to be teaching your children is how to regulate their emotions, how to use basic programs on a PC, and how to sift through mountains of shit to find something useful, not setting them in front of YouTube so they can watch Pinkfong all day. YouTube for young children is literally poison