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   Doug Belshaw (dajb@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 16:29:35 JST Doug Belshaw

   • Neil Brown

   @neil There's so much to comment on here.

   First: the main reason that parents give children smartphones, other than as a babysitting device, is to track them.

   While the world is objectively safer than it was for previous generations, there's social pressure to know where your kids are at all times.

   Up here, kids go to middle school (and therefore walk to school by themselves) aged nine.

   Unsupervised use is another thing, but easy to see how it happens.

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     Doug Belshaw (dajb@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 16:30:21 JST Doug Belshaw

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     • Neil Brown

     @neil

     Second: I do think there's a culture in the UK that I haven't seen elsewhere that "someone should sort this out" (with that "someone" being "not me")

     You see it in news stories all of the time. The parent appearing on the news to comment on "the dangers of vaping" and how "the government should do something about it". Yet theyve neglected to intervene in their own kids life.

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