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YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

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209 points pseudolus | 4 comments | 13 Dec 25 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.164s | source
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mattgreenrocks ◴[13 Dec 25 12:40 UTC] No.46254143[source]▶
All ages benefit from time-limited exposure to social media. We have a term for it now: brainrot. Fully convinced it is the cigarettes of our generation: ubiquitous enough to be pervasive despite negative externalities.
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1. amelius ◴[13 Dec 25 14:27 UTC] No.46254731[source]▶
In schools there should be a class about safe internet use and it should be mandatory to write an essay about the benefits children get personally from using social media as well as the downsides.
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2. Quothling ◴[13 Dec 25 14:30 UTC] No.46254750[source]▶
There has been for like 15 years. At least around here, well withouth the essay. I'm not sure what the essay would do, it would be written by a LLM anyway. Don't worry, LLM usage and risks is the next class we're beginning to teach as a society. Of course my own generation won't get that, so we're going to be fun "boomers" that way.
3. amitav1 ◴[14 Dec 25 00:48 UTC] No.46259790[source]▶
Saying this as a current high school student: there should be as few mandatory classes as possible. Your maths, sciences, and Englishes make sense. In Ontario, we also have to take French (bit more iffy, but I guess it's an official language), Civics (fluff), careers (more fluff), and technology and the skilled trades (I like technology, but still fluff). The more classes you stuff into school that don't relate to what a student wants to pursue, the more disengaged they become. Ironically, if this were a class, I, and most others would be on our phones for pretty much all of it.
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4. alsetmusic ◴[17 Dec 25 01:29 UTC] No.46297147[source]▶
It's funny how much you think you know better than adults when you're a teen (and even into your twenties, when your brain is still developing for half that time).

I never would have thought there was value in a lot of things I was forced to learn at that age. Even for the stuff that hasn't had practical application in my life (flying buttress, for example), I wouldn't retroactively reduce how much learning I was expected to complete.