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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

All smartphones can access social media. But they also have some really good (mostly intuitive) parental controls. So if you don’t want you kid on Facebook just block it.

What does it matter if the child is on a phone all day va on a computer all day? Sure you can’t really do that in class, but what about the other 16 hours of the day?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is false information. You can limit what apps they have with safeguards with many different services. Google family, Samsung family share and Microsoft family all have limited app options where you can let through whatever you think is good enough. You can also only allow a certain amount of hours for each app on a daily basis. There are so many safeguards if you look it's not difficult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No that isn't what they said. They said they can be at a computer all day when I said you can limit the amount of time. They also said all smartphones can access the Internet, when you can in fact limit their Internet in every way possible including what they download to even try and circumvent the limitations. I don't see how anything they said is close to what I said.

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