Eleven months ago, I wrote about what I thought was a truly fascinating find: that some kids appeared to be using some random old NPR podcasts on Spotify as a personal chat room to get around vario…
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techblueberryabout 2 hours ago
I know he means this as a cautionary tale. But this is so cool! It’s exactly the kind of positive externality I’d hope you’d get from banning kids from social media. I didn’t think I’d need more reasons.
Teens especially should not have their socialization mediated by giant social media companies.
And handing your kids to Mark Zuckerberg is a terrible replacement for “closing down the real world places where they can do that outside of school.”
Fix that and only that. Everything else is a distraction.
hn_ackerabout 2 hours ago
The full title is:
> Ban Kids From Social Media And They’ll Just Chat In Public Radio Podcast Comments
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