₦airaland Forum

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
Enforce the same ban in Nigeria for under-23s and de-monetize all of social media.

We've had enough of these overnight content creators.

osazsky:
How will they verify age without a recognized ID..these guys are confused o

Smartjob1:
How would they achieve that? What if the teenager uses fake everything to sign up, how would they know?

trium:
Parents should not give kids smartphones till they are 17. Note, I said smartphone. It will help their lives and they will know not to fall for pressure.

Our parents denied us some things to train us for life. We can pull the plug because we did not die. That time, it was T.V. time but as an adult you too can now see that you did not need to watch the T.V. all the time. The same for games. You will never progress in life when all you do is consume.

trium:
Parents should not give kids smartphones till they are 17. Note, I said smartphone. It will help their lives and they will know not to fall for pressure.

Our parents denied us some things to train us for life. We can pull the plug because we did not die. That time, it was T.V. time but as an adult you too can now see that you did not need to watch the T.V. all the time. The same for games. You will never progress in life when all you do is consume.

AllenSpencer:
It’s about being wise. It’s glaring that the way real time informations is being decimated happens to be a threat to the norms.

Many things 10 year old kids know now that you never knew at 10. Not that you not wanting to know, but you never had a platform to readily access.

olisaEze:
How are they meant to achieve that without magic??

DejiPlug:
Better still mk dem join One Night With The King

www.domimedia.org

panafrican:
People of European origins are waking up now that their society is messed up like h.ell with L.G.B.T. Q +++++ , Opioid and mental illness .

Justtach:
It's a great move especially as the social media is doing more harm than good to teenagers. Recall some few days ago in France when the young girl came out crying and apologizing in the Court of how she lied over her teacher on social media who was subsequently beheaded in 2020. I wish Nigeria will take a leap from this.


The question still remains the sincerity of passing and enforcing such a law.

PaZwoD:
highly recommended

AllenSpencer:
That’s what they make you to believe!

They only have realized that social media is enlightening many, and if they don’t curb it, there will never be another generation of fools.

They are going back to the basics. Indoctrinate them when they young so they will not depart from it when they are old, and even if they depart, it would be too late.

trium:
Parents should not give kids smartphones till they are 17. Note, I said smartphone. It will help their lives and they will know not to fall for pressure.

Our parents denied us some things to train us for life. We can pull the plug because we did not die. That time, it was T.V. time but as an adult you too can now see that you did not need to watch the T.V. all the time. The same for games. You will never progress in life when all you do is consume.

DiamondsAreFore:
Australia has passed a law banning social media for kids under 16, placing responsibility on tech companies to enforce the rule. Companies like Meta, TikTok, and Snapchat have one year to comply or face fines of up to $32 million.

The law aims to protect children from online harm but prohibits platforms from using ID checks to verify age, raising questions about how they will comply.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89vjj0lxx9o.amp

AllenSpencer:
It all depends on how conversant you are with gadgets.

Kids can have gadgets with parental control. In a world of today, you cannot deny them those gadgets. It makes learning faster and easier.

Just get an add iPad for them, come it to your phone and you will be able to set what and what they can access. You can also add time to it. Even when registering the iPad with their age, Apple has its own parental control to keep them off what’s not.

You want them to learn programming and have a grasp of the world from an early age, you have to get them in-tuned with their surroundings and that’s the web.

trium:
I'm very conversant and I agree with you on what they can learn but they must be supervised. A child's mind is not mature enough to deal with the dark side of the internet, trust me. A child is very curious and has time on their hands, they can override that control if they are determined to learn just as they can sneak a phone to use if you ban them. The porn craze we have today was not a seed that was sown today, the users grew up with it, learned it and think it's a way of life. Their minds are so messed up now that they need therapy to heal. Don't you remember how back then, just reading soft porn could make you have imaginations?

Porn is the extreme example to use. See, adults have a conversation process kids can never understand until they pass through the ritual. There is research that shows that someone can lure your child wherever you are in the world just by having access to them. No matter how you teach kids, they need time to grow and we must not stop the process. That's why some words we use today can be so innocent to a child but adults know the hidden meaning. Education is different from entertainment. The tech guys don't give their kids phones, including the maids. You think they don't know what's up?
A child will learn when it's time, under proper supervision and guidance. Nothing is running away. build a child the morals they need to navigate the system of life


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrQfL99Jsw

AllenSpencer:
The schools have same parental control I was talking about. If he does have one at home. He definitly will use his laptop in school.

The world has changed. You cannot really keep this kids away from informations. How you manage it is what counts.

trium:
School is a supervised environment.

At home, even where there is supervision, unless a parent is very strict, they will be distracted.

It's not about living in the world, it is controlling how we live in the world.

AllenSpencer:
Like I mentioned earlier, it all boils down to management. Schools don’t have the time to supervise over 300 laptops, all they do is use advanced softwares and systems to keep them at bay.

meobizy:
Unfortunately, Nairaland is not classified as social media. I would propose for the same concerning this two-bit chat forum.

Online forums can be considered a type of social media that is more specialized and niche. Forums are online discussion sites where users can: create threads, post messages, respond to existing threads, share information, and exchange ideas.

trium:
Okay, tell me why the school is using the laptop in the first place and I will respond to you.

Is it to write?
To read?
To speak?
To research?

Stolen:
LET ME TELL U HOW MUMU THIS LAW IS;



A BABY BORN TODAY, UNDER 2 YEASR OLD OR 1 YEARS OLD; HAS IPAD, THEY ARE ALREADY ON YOUTUBE WATCHING THEIR FAVOURITE CARTOON.




IS YOUTUBE NOT SOCIAL MEDIA

geeetee:
thats different bruv, they watch it under their parents account...its called youtube kids ..there 're parental controls for pretty much everything.

AllenSpencer:
In North America, Kids start having access to laptops from either grade 2 or 3, can’t remember factual, and they grow with it from there.

Namelesscoder:
Great way to go!!!

Make them ban porn site too



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trium:
AllenSpencer, I am not trying to prove you wrong or prove myself right. We just need to rethink what we are doing.

There's no FOMO for kids. We need to understand the brain they have and let it grow before intercepting it with tech.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcEbnRtpLfw