A surprising number of 'iPad Kids' are on X, study finds

It's an anti-social network, makes sense with the trend of gen alpha sharing less and less, they will stumble through a lot of porn though...

"Butters? Are you on Twitter?"

"No Dad! Just watching porn!"

..It's actually a much better alternative, I can't even lie.

Parents, all you have to do is talk near them about how cool X is to you, while suppressing your gag reflex long enough for them to cringe.

So what. Everyone was on twitter in middle school for me back when it first became a thing. It's not new news.

Twitter now is what 4chan was then in many ways. This should be disconcerting in the least.

This what we're calling gen alpha then?

Apple is gonna love that free advertising

Is it really any worse than Gen X's symbol of youthful rebellion being a cable TV channel owned and operated by Viacom so they can advertise music that's been packaged up by the big three labels?
- Oh well, whatever, nevermind

Terminally online toddlers

I’m surprised that Facebook consistently ranks higher than Snapchat on these charts. I thought younger generations considered Facebook to be for “old people” for just about 7 years now.

Facebook in Brazil survives through groups, I don't think people actually engage with the feed, most use it as forum each one inside their own groups.
It highly depends on country, region, socioeconomic factors etc.
It's just not true in reality though. I see people from young teenagers to people in their twenties and thirties using Facebook. It's dominant amongst all age groups and the "Facebook is for old people" trope is a myth that needs to die out.
- Facebook needs to die out.
- Maybe it's because they have to? Keeping in touch with older relatives, following local events, etc

Not even the fun kind of X. C'mon, iPad kids!

Not enough x to be fun

I mean it's run by the biggest kid, so I guess it's understandable that they at least want to check out what their like-minded fellow is doing over there.

I hope they turn away in disgust.

I found it interesting to see where Roblox falls off the chart.

Do COPPA fines apply here?

As unenforcable as they've always been, and honestly I prefer it that way. Really don't want to give my ID to random websites.
Have they ever?

You should have to actually validate your age to use social media and you should be required to be 18.

No I don't think we should give corpos access to even more identifying info about us. You have a kid YOU have the responytobtake care of them not me. If you believe a kid should be able to go on the internet without proper surveillance it's on you if something happens to that kid not me. I would not give my kids a blank plane ticket to go anywhere they want in the world without surveillance, it's the same for the internet. It's not my responsibility to secure your kid it's yours.
- U don’t have to do anything unless u work for the agency that is verifying age. Would you say the same about school shooters? Not your problem. Up to parents to stop their kids. Unfortunately, we allow anybody to create life as there are a lot of bad parents.
Nah I don't want corpos to have even more information on me than they already have.

It's time for people to finally accept again that you can't shield kids from anything, especially if it seems forbidden and interesting.

Also if you really wanted to pick a verification age you would have to go with 25+. 18 years old are just legal 17 years old and 20 years are barely out of school and don't have any experience about anything. 30+ years are stuck in the system and 65+ simply don't care anymore.

Actually raise the verification age to 99+. No wait just ban social media for everyone, it sucks and is unhealthy, go tough grass or something.
- So don’t have an age restriction for tobacco, or alcohol or strip clubs either cuz you can’t shield kids from anything? Got it.
How do you validate age over the internet?
- You have to go somewhere to register in person and then you have to do Face ID to log in.
People who use age as a measure of intelligence are the proof that is doesn't work. ;)
- It doesn't have to (and shouldn't) be the social media company gathering that information but a third party verification system that doesn't save anything, just validates the age using a driver's license/form of ID. We can do this (we do it for military and veterans so companies can give them discounts) in the US already.
  
  I can understand not wanting to give social media too much data on you, but honestly they probably already have it already. Especially on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
  
  If we're supposed to be protecting children (with all these stupid laws anyway), then let's actually do that instead of just pretending all these stupid restrictions we currently have actually work.
  
  No, I don't think the cutoff should be 18 either but a parent or guardian being forced to validate a 14 year old's account for them might actually force them to engage with what their kid is doing online which I would consider a win.
- Lmao, the article is literally talking about children under the age of 10
Easy and cheap access to anonymous, private, libre, and freedoms respecting computing is the inaliable human right of all hackers and future hackers.

I shouldn't even need an email to sign up, why do you think I'm here?

Let's introduce a national digital id to stop the kids accessing shit online. And to ensure that we need to make it linked to ur government id.

Edit: spelling

TrollTrace irl
Let's not be pieces of shit using "for the kids" to destroy basic privacy rights online.
- But think of the children they must be protected we can't possibly expect parents to be responsible so the government must step in to ensure their safety.
Would you give your kids blank plane tickets for them to go anywhere in the world alone ?

I guess not, then don't give them a internet connected device without surveillance. It's YOUR responsibility to keep YOUR kids safe not mine. I don't want to be forced to give MY ID online for YOUR kids to be loose on the internet as much as I don't want to see your kids roaming alone anywhere they feel like.
Yeah there's no way that could go wrong or be exploited by unscrupulous actors. Maybe parents should actually parent their kids? Extreme, I know.
- What could possibly go wrong. There definatly wouldnt be any authoritarian shit going on.
What about we introduce more control from teachers and parents about what devices kids have access to, and give them some supervision too while we're at it?
- I propose we take all parents, line them up, and start slapping them in the face until they stop being so fucking stupid.
  
  Alternatively, and more realistically, we accept that gen z and gen alpha are just lost causes and massively invest in schools so maybe in a couple of generations we can break the cycle of stupidity.
- That will never work. The people can't be trusted they must be controlled with an iron fist of justice and glory.
So every person can be identified on whatever sites they do whatever they post.

That's China. Not America
- You could very easily build the system to perform the age check without logging it to the user's ID since the check only needs to be performed once to create an account and just block anyone without one from seeing any of the content.
  
  Estonia has digital ID based services and they aren't China. In fact China despises them because they've made the cutting edge in digital public services without having to compromise citizen privacy, which makes China look even worse for going out of their way to invade citizen privacy when it isn't even necessary to offer the same safety measures and services.
You'd what?