Social websites harm children's brains

[Whiternoise]

Originally Posted by transylvanic

Really? Because I find that pretty hypocritical. The first page I ever loaded up on the internet was Kate's Playground. I've been looking at NSFW stuff since before the abbreviation was invented. And then to turn around and tell junior, no you can't do that? How could I possibly raise a child that doesn't look at porn? I would have no way of understanding his world, it would be like raising an alien.

As has been said above, too much of anything is bad for you, that's why it's too much. Parents should bear responsibility for their own damn kids and stop these stupid moral panics.

I mean that it's patently clear that if i have kids, they are likely to have a computer at a young age and thus will probably have access to the internet - i would hate to deny my kids PC gaming! I don't mean filtering access to a kid in their teens, that would be stupid and indeed would be hypocritical. I think i used the internet for at least a year or two before i even realised that porn existed - for reference the first site i looked at was about solar eclipses where my dad worked . Kate's Playground eh? You must have been pretty late on the internet scene

However, i don't want my 5 year old child looking at porn thankyou very much - or indeed sites with disturbing content.

[MadduckUK]

Originally Posted by transylvanic

Kate's Playground

good taste

[nvening]

Dont listen to the crappy scare stories, mirical cures, cancer causing storys in the media - most of them are written by journalists who have no scientific knowledge, who dont understand the facts and misinterpret data - and often just make stuff up.

Just look at the MRSA scare, the MMR scare etc - this ones alot more nothingy tho lol

[MadduckUK]

Originally Posted by nvening

Dont listen to the crappy scare stories, mirical cures, cancer causing storys in the media - most of them are written by journalists who have no scientific knowledge, who dont understand the facts and misinterpret data - and often just make stuff up.

Just look at the MRSA scare, the MMR scare etc - this ones alot more nothingy tho lol

its true you know

[nvening]

Originally Posted by MadduckUK

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its true you know

I take it thats a cartoon around the time the small pox virus was invented??

[MadduckUK]

Originally Posted by nvening

I take it thats a cartoon around the time the small pox virus was invented??

vaccine not virus, but yeah i know you meant the former bit of an oldschool scaremongering that the papers still do today

[nvening]

aha yeh, mistype sos - its not just the media tho - we would probably have eliminated polio by now but a group of imams in northern nigeria decided the polio vaccine was designed to spread HIV to the muslim world and cause their destruction

As a result we still have the disease and there were numerous outbreaks all over the world causing many thousands of deaths, especially in children.

EDIT

Also can i just comment on the rediculous wording of the article designed to cause panic (/ make money by people viewing adverts) for example:

"Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned."

At no point does she say that it has been proven that such sites "are" causing changes, not having seen the who text of the actual interview its hard to get at exactly what she was talking about but even in the authors quotes the most she ever says is "my fear (is)".

Im not saying such sites couldnt possibly be having a negative effect in some ways (and positive in others mind you) and thus it is a valid hypothesis which could be explored and valuable experimental data found - however this article is outrageous.