[analognoise]

"The vast majority of even elementary school childrens' lives are being moved online"

I know we're big on the tech bubble, but this is not only not the case, but we as parents should make it actively not the case. There's grass - touch it.

It turns out "online" is mostly a bunch of garbage - useless scrolling and dopamine hits from nothing. We need to turn it off. It's worse for us than smoking. I'd argue it was worse than leaded gasoline, and while we used it for a while, we finally got proper and banned it. Hopefully all "social media" gets that treatment, one day.

[eddiewithzato]

With hindsight today, the internet was indeed a mistake. Any good it did is compounded by so much bad. Honestly the advent of the iPhone/smartphones really accelerated this toxic nature. Facebook/twitter/instagram/etc are probably the biggest drivers of human misery today.