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Media study on Gen Alpha kids show 'purposeful participation' over 'mindless consumption' of media and increased privacy consciousness over previous gen::Gen Alpha kids are protective of their personal data online and enjoy media that allows them to control their experiences with content.

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[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 9 months ago

I never understood Gen Z’s mindset to privacy. Caught my son telling people lots of personal info on chat roulette at one point, and had to have a long discussion. This was after already telling him about the fact that you shouldn’t just tell people online, or strangers, personal details. Never mind strangers online.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Bruh shouldnt be lettin ur son have unlimmited internet access. Set up a bunch of blocks and limmits and once they figure how to bypass it then they can do what they please

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You ever tried to keep a kid from accessing things? My network was parent controlled out the ass, and all it really takes is going over to a friends house, or borrowing a relatives iPad, and he had free rein on the internet.

Not to mention the school had an unrestricted network with a simple 8 character password certain students figured out.

It’s not as simple as “just set up blocks.” 🤦🏻‍♂️

Edit: I literally went so far as to gain access to my neighbors wifi just to block my kids devices from being able to connect to them.

[-] aclarkc@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

You’ve done nothing wrong but FYI you can block things at a device level in most cases. My little kid currently has device level restrictions as well as NextDNS restrictions. As she gets older I’ll probably look at something more strict like a provisioned profile to make it harder for her to work around those restrictions. Nothings perfect and as you said kids will find a way.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Back when this took place, dns level stuff wasn’t very prevalent in the consumer market. Hell, even parental control on devices was non-existent. I had to MDM his phone just to gain the control I needed, and even then it wasn’t everything I needed without paying out the ass for what was essentially corporate level management of devices.

These days I’m running a whole slew of things that could handle it easily, but at this point he’s out of the house living on his own.

[-] aclarkc@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

Fair enough :)

I’m opposite and just now have a 4 year old dabbling with electronics.

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