Icks on Yik Yak | When parents blame apps for being “too addictive” or negatively impacting their child’s mental health. Anything can become addictive. Maybe watch your kids or teach them to limit themselves

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Icks 1d

When parents blame apps for being “too addictive” or negatively impacting their child’s mental health. Anything can become addictive. Maybe watch your kids or teach them to limit themselves

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Anonymous 1d

It’s both. Kids shouldn’t be given unrestricted access to tech, but children’s apps shouldn’t be intentionally designed to be addictive

Anonymous 22h

You cannot genuinely be this naive

Anonymous 16h

It is entirely true that they are too addictive. Not only do they naturally exploit your brain’s dopamine systems, but app/social media developers intentionally make them MORE addictive with their algorithms.

Anonymous 19h

I swear there are way too many parents who don’t know what basic parenting is. Not saying that I have the best or only way; but you at least do something.

Anonymous 14h

As a child of strict parents, they’ll find a way to

Anonymous 7h

Child and parents VS. Hundreds of psychologists using science to figure out how to make tech as addictive as possible. I don’t like the family’s odds.

Anonymous 7h

these social media companies hire psychologists and researchers to find the most effective way to get people to compulsively/habitually scroll. we're talking professionals making upwards of 6 figures whose goal is to increase user engagement and time spent. they work with design teams to maximize their influence over your primate psychology. in aggregate, parents are not more powerful than those forces. they must be regulated

Anonymous 7h

In this economy how can they watch their kids all the time? Yes parents have responsibilities but so do tech companies and our government.

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Anonymous

#1 1d

In a perfect world, they wouldn’t be. But that’s what keeps them engaging and down the line, more money in corporate/company pockets. Parents should know this.

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Anonymous

#2 21h

Monitor your kids online usage. You’d be a horrible parent lol. Kids don’t need social media anyways

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Anonymous

OP 18h

If I had kids they wouldn’t ever be given a smartphone

Anonymous

#2 18h

You have to give them one and TEACH THEM HOW TO USE IT eventually. It is a part of daily life now, and making them technologically illiterate isn’t helpful. Or realistic. Teaching them healthy use and modeling it yourself is the best thing you can do. Age appropriately, ofc. My kids won’t have a smartphone of their own until 13. Also bringing back the concept of a computer room in my home. The internet lives here and here only lmao

Anonymous

#1 18h

I said if because i’m not planning on having children nor relations that could spawn said children

Anonymous

#2 18h

I mean, fair. But also the all or nothing mindset isn’t helpful in life in general. I mean we saw where abstinence only sex ed got us amirite 😂😂😂

Anonymous

#1 18h

No I disagree because i’m only all or nothing with a family. Life if much more than a spouse and babies

Anonymous

#1 8h

your child should not have anything that can download an “app”. there’s no such thing as “children’s apps”.

Anonymous

#6 8h

Even if you don’t agree with them, there objectively are apps for children. And not all are evil. With appropriate use and monitoring at a correct age there’s a lot of good resources online. Especially for those who live too far away from libraries (most have apps now), tutoring apps for older children who need extra support, accessibility apps for disabled children (speech, dyslexia fonts, etc), and not all children’s content is brain rot

Anonymous

#4 7h

Sounds like a great reason to stay off of social media because if you can’t or don’t wanna keep your children off of it, then there’s no reason to complain because you’re also complicit

Anonymous

OP 6h

Says the one on social media

Anonymous

#1 6h

And what about it? I know how to regulate and limit myself. Was this supposed to be a jab or something?

Anonymous

#1 5h

all of those are exceptional specific use cases and don’t apply to the general idea that children should not have access to internet-enabled devices, apps, and especially youtube. if you don’t think children’s “content” is harmful, then congrats, their marketing and manipulation tactics have worked on you as well - you’ll raise a great future consumer!