“No screens in the bedroom, ever.”

  • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Have you had any sucess with explaining the concept of clickbaiting and the whole predatory environment of the internet? I’ve tried, so many times, in different ways, with different examples and analogies. It just doesn’t really stick, they are simply too inexperienced to fully understand the consequences and will fall prey to it the next day or two.

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      1 day ago

      I still fall for it from time to time. I used to show them the headlines that caught me; they showed me the ones that caught them.

      I think showing them how to use PiHole or some other content filtering would be useful. Empower them to shape their own world.

      • lemmyknow@lemmy.today
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        17 hours ago

        Pi-Hole? Damn kid gonna be a hacker one day, pi-holing from infancy. Back in my days, we played Club Penguin and Flash games as kids on a computer