This has crystallised something for me: I'm not letting my children anywhere near a Meta product. They can decide what they want when they're adults.

I'm not usually this absolute, but by codifying levels of permissible harm, Meta makes it clear that your wellbeing is the very last of their priorities. These are insidious tools that can actively fool you.

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nine_zeros 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> This has crystallised something for me: I'm not letting my children anywhere near a Meta product. They can decide what they want when they're adults.

You know how parents are supposed to warn kids away from cigarettes? Yeah, warn them away from social media of all kinds except parental approved group chats.

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grafmax 2 days ago | parent [-]

On the other hand totally insulating kids isn’t a solution either because then one day they potentially find themselves in the real world with inadequate skills for navigating a toxic environment.

	▲	nine_zeros 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah you let them experience all this gradually once they are ready - just like you let them drive gradually after 16 - first with supervision and later independently in your car and later with their own car.

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tempodox 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Which is nothing new. It just gets reinforced with ever more outrageous examples every once in a while.