[sinclairX86]

> I had more or less unrestricted internet access since the time I was able to use a computer, but it feels like it wasn’t overly harmful

I have the opposite experience.

  - I've been addicted to pornography since I was 12.
  - Late computer use caused me to never get enough sleep.
  - Programming early started my career, but it also isolated me socially.

YouTube and Tik Tok scare me; as a grown-up, I can still waste hours just swiping and swiping. I suspect that getting this behavior early on will make you more docile. My siblings raise their kids with tablets, and it impacts their learning ability and sociability tremendously.

[yieldcrv]

or maybe its like other easily abused substances: having a social circle navigating the same thing makes people not be maladjusted and have moderation

different set of norms but just different

abstinence only education doesn't work, no need to become your parents just because of a new thing to have a knee jerk reaction to