So how bad are video games and social media really for kids growing up? Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal since they seem to be able to earn money and afford console/pc as well as games despite inflation.

>>713769337 (OP)
It's gonna get pretty bad ngl

>>713769337 (OP)
depends on what games you give them.
avoid games with predatory experiences, time wasters, autistic grinding games and lol lmao ecchi games like doa and duke nukem and they will turn out fine. sit and play with them so when they are playing sims and two dudes make out, you can be there to tell them its just a technical limitation not intended gameplay.
when some nude scene comes on like warrior within's first ass shot, get angry and ground them for a day and take the device away till the weekend, and then give it back without the problematic game. will teach them that those scenes are bad without alienating them or ruining their hobby.

>>713769337 (OP)
>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal

>>713769337 (OP)
Nigga half the people here are on disability/the dole and live with their parents. Of course they can buy videogames when all their money is disposable income and they have no overheads

>>713769443
>all those meds
>plus a giant coffee
cyanide acts faster, why do these women take the slower path?

>>713769337 (OP)
Either only becomes a problem if your child is so socially withdrawn they have to try and fill the place socialization is supposed to with the internet.
Unfortunately, it's apparently now socially unacceptable for any child to exist without supervision by either a parent or authority figure, so every kid growing up in actual first world conditions is lonely as shit. The only real interactions they can have, that they don't have to filter for their fucking parents' approval, are through a fucking screen. Of course a kid will turn out maladjusted when that's how they fucking grow up.

>>713769721
>why do these women take the slower path
the trusted expert doctor goldenstein gets less money from selling one dose of cyanide(/or just telling her to not drink caffeine) than all the shit she is on

>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal

>>713769443
>takes meds for insomnia
>downs it with coffee
Women...

>>713769907
kek never noticed this

>>713769443

>>713769829
So would this strictly be prevalent in the zoomer generation or maybe have some overlap with millenials as they had internet access? And what are roughly the long term consequences of this dastardliness?

>>713769337 (OP)
>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal

>>713770002
>all that shit
>baby faggot keyboard
>hyper x headset
>a&w

its gonna get so much worse

>>713770914
what do you mean?

>>713769337 (OP)
most kids will not have a normal childhood and will be fucked up as a result of uncontrolled social media

>>713769337 (OP)
>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal
Is this satire?

>>713769337 (OP)
nigger we use 4chan, do you really think we turned out ok?

>>713769337 (OP)
If I had to I would probably try to restrict internet access from any younger than 16 mainly because kids are in the stage of social developement and need to break things get hurt rather than be on the internet all day

>>713769337 (OP)
Who gives a shit about zoomers and alphies?

>>713769721
That thing doesn't even remotely look like a woman

>>713770002
if she isn't trans, she is VERY trans-coded

>>713769337 (OP)
>ipad kids
why did shitllenials give tech to their kids as young as 3?

I was thinking if I had kids I'd give then newer gen consoles as they age, just like how I grew up.

>>713769337 (OP)
>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal since they seem to be able to earn money and afford console/pc as well as games despite inflation.

>>713771952
its part of this soft parenting approach where you are friends with you kids instead of disciplining them and raising them like normal fucking parents

>>713771952
>hey man whats wrong witch yu

>>713769337 (OP)
>kid on the far left
>already possessed by jeetware and gaas slop
its over

>>713769443
just ban women from smartphones. Done

>>713769337 (OP)
>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal

>>713771952
many people shouldn't parents. simple as

>>713769443
>I have insomnia
>drinks coffee at midnight to wash her meds down

>>713769337 (OP)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jeremyhayes/ipad-kid-horror-stories
>Parents And Childcare Workers Are Sharing Their "IPad Kid" Horror Stories, And It's A Glimpse Into What Screen Addiction Can Do To Children

>>713771952
Because millennials lived through 3 economic recessions and were too busy with both partners working 2 jobs each to pay the $3500/mo rent an hour away from work.

>>713773203
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/kids-speaking-like-americans-cant-30896537
>Kids are 'speaking like Americans' and 'can’t climb stairs' due to too much screen time

>>713769337 (OP)
You should worry about yourself first.
>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal
lol

>>713769443
>chugs coffee all day
>wtf why can't I sleep?

>>713769337 (OP)
I've been speaking with a girl my age who has brainrot. She's very sweet and funny, but she has no idea how to carry on a conversation. She's extremely reserved, speaks way too quietly and avoids eye contact. It's obvious using the internet had an impact on her development, and it's a real plague attacking the entire zoomer, alpha and beta generation.

>>713769337 (OP)
Video games are fine, but youtube content farm slop and social media are genuine brain destroyers

>>713773307
>bong speak is being erased for mutt speak
>revenge for peppa pig

>>713769337 (OP)
Rolling

>>713769337 (OP)
kids shouldnt touch a screen until they are 16

>>713772064
I got ps2 at 2008, psp at 2011 and 360 at 2014.
just give them the good old stuff.
you can even burn the disks for them and give them a new game every 2-3 weeks or so, so they dont get autistically attached to a single game or genre and grow their tastes while having lots of memories.

>>713769337 (OP)
they're absolutely fucked

>>713771795
A cuntboy, cause Tomboys aren't progressive enough.

>>713769443
what the fuck is the melatonin even doing when she's already taking trazadone?
side note- don't take sleeping pills if you can avoid them. It just builds dependency. People need to learn how to sleep.

Why is there zero public will to actually update child online safety laws and keep kids off the internet?

>>713773536
>brainrot
>talks less instead of talking without controlling herself like most who have brainrot do
whats her number?

Does anybody else really not have any actual "social media"?

Like I have an anonymous Twitter shitposting account and that's about it.

I've just had people in real life ask for "facebook" or "insta" and the answer is... no?

>>713773536
how old was she? I have seen so many kids get fucked up on tech like what you see at resteraunts. It's fucking insane and cracks will begin to form because of this sooner rather than later.

>>713773826
Melatonin just gives me a headache if I don't take enough of it, and if I do take a lot for it to work I wake up feeling like absolute shit, rather just drink myself to sleep than that

>>713773901
We're already dating fuck off

>>713773870
cos at the end of the day it's up to parents to enforce it and to many the internet is a free babysitter.

>>713769708
>mfw making $5k a month on gibs while NEETmaxxing and living alone

>>713769337 (OP)
If you give your small child a tablet to keep them quiet you might as well teach them to shoot heroin.

>>713773925
I have a discord I use to talk and play games with my IRL friends and that's it, the idea of using it to join random internet communities made up of strangers is completely foreign to me

>>713773947
18. The first iPad kids started popping up in the mid 2010s

>>713773870
cause people who already got brainrot already suffered the damages, and have grown to find lots of this brain rot fun and part of their childhood, and what they do when they hang out with their friends, and how they pass their free time. you cant expect people who went through the unnecessary pain to let go of the gain.

>>713769705
LMAO

>>713773870
Society has this belief that regulation in any form is communist/socialist and that the idea of infinite growth and greed is good which comes from reagonomics are more important than basic human decency and life

>>713774009
>the idea of using it to join random internet communities made up of strangers is completely foreign to me
never heard of forums?

>>713773963
I dont mind being a third wheel

>>713771795
Men have effectively erased ugly women.

>>713773870
M O N E Y

>boomers grew up playing with other kids outside
>zoomers grew up playing couch coop together
>golems are growing up with smartphone brainrot and internet, never socializing outside of school

>>713773870
There was a caucus started recently by MatPat of all people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_Economy_Caucus

>>713773991
how do i obtain this and escape wagecucking

>>713774014
yeah getting on too late is as damaging as getting on the internet too young. you cant treat it as the local community center. its interacting with a bunch of strangers who face no reprecussions for most of the things they do. not even a reputation hit. either cut it out entirely or get on it a couple years before puberty starts. starting to use internet during puberty is almost as bad using it before your 6.

>>713774075
I used forums to post and get info on a specific topic, from my understanding these types of discord servers are people trying to make friends online where every user is either a socially stunted 15 year old or a pedophile

>>713774180
first you have to wagecuck so your disability amount is high

>>713769337 (OP)
Kids having internet these days is a lot safer than when i was young
At least now most porn/gore stuff is filtered by default
I clearly remember watching the pain olympics and other gore shit when I was very young

>>713773870
desu, it's just really convenient to hand a child a tablet, when you have multiple kids and a dog, and you need them to stop wrecking the house for twenty minutes.
Everyone knows it's bad, but I get why they do it.

>>713773826
>trazadone
>It just builds dependency
not true whatsoever, zopiclone and adjacent drugs are the only thing to come close to this
t. 10 year pharma insider

>>713774235
The thing is literally everyone is on the internet now, including all of the retarded poor people who couldn't afford computers back in the 90's or didn't now how to operate them. there's a whole new class of wrongun roaming around these days.

so how bad was social media for the internet?

>>713774472
yeah but it still beats having social media without report button.
I remember report buttons getting taken off social media apps cause "certain users abused them to ruin having fun in communities". which led to a surge of actual criminals running literal internet mafia for a few months. I lost count of how many pedophiles and druggies approached me in dms from public meme groups to work for them.
disclaimer: I didnt work with them, I was 8 and I got weirded out and got off social media for a good couple years. just saying that back then was a whole can of worms better avoided. rather have cancel culture than what we had back then. better safe than sorry as the saying goes.

>>713773307
Yeah this is happening in Australia too.
Our Alphies and the younger zoomers do the weird American nasal "R" sound and say words like "data" wrong, it really shits me.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40309512/
>Hijacked by the Feed: Social Media Neuroengineering-Induced Digital Anhedonia

Scientifically proven that it is causing kids to be low iq retards. The average iq has been steadily decreasing ever since social media became a big thing.
Most kids can't do basic math these days.
I dread the future, but that is no longer my problem

>>713773870
The housing crisis.
Its honestly the root of all our problems for almost 20 years now.

People go with the iPad babysitter cuz they're broke.
Real babysitters are so fucking expensive no-one can afford them and you cant rely on the grandparents all the time.
Both parents are working full time jobs, sometimes 2 jobs to pay the rent on a $1.2mil shithole of a 2 bedroom house 1 hour away from work.
You need to earn 150k/yr to qualify for a home loan with a perfect credit score.

Just everything's fucked with the housing market and its getting so bad its having a trickle-down effect on the rest of society.

t.I run a small hotel and our rent is $112k/month, we barely make that much back and lose the rest in wages. Guests complain that the rooms are too expensive for how shitty the place is but there's nothing we can do.

>>713769337 (OP)

>>713774175
>matpat in a suit talking to members of congress
wtf

>>713774802
>say words like "data" wrong,
You mean the correct pronunciation

>>713769907
tbf coffee calms me and makes me sleep well, it may be downright to caffeine dependency but I get anxious without it. I don't take any meds btw.

>>713774075
but with internet forums you make an account specifically for the forum

>>713774913
that's because of other reasons

>>713769337 (OP)
Gaymes are fine, as long as they have a definitive ending. Just don't let them play live service slop or esports titles. Basically any online "game" that's designed to keep you hooked.

>>713775131
European DNA percentage decreasing?

>>713774974
the only solution is to remove all taxes on millionaires and up. they earned it

>>713775032
daterrr

>>713773307
this is what a cultural victory looks like

>>713775170
True. I would go a step farther tho. Why not remove millionaires too?

>>713769337 (OP)
>imlplying being normal is good
I guess some people indeed don’t have soul.

>>713775217
Pardon me anon,
You said "daterr", it is pronounced "data"

I dunno what fucked shit corpos are trying to sell to mobile kids nowadays, but growing up during the "golden age" undeniably helped my fine motors skills, problem solving and spatial awareness
can't imagine how bad government-run schools have become now

>>713775415
shut the FUCK up datuh

>>713775435
It's weird seeing my parents struggle with 3 dimensional spatial awareness. Strange that video games can legitimately improve that aspect of a person's brain

>>713772198
>friends with you kids instead of abusing them and raising them like generic npc parents.
You disgust me.

>>713775558
I have aphantasia (no mind's eye) but can handle 3D stuff fine because of vidya

>>713775558
NTA but I legit think i got good form drawing from vydia addiction because i was able to see the 3d. Still shit at drawing tho

>>713774538
it destroyed everything we loved

>>713774049
>Society has this belief that regulation in any form is communist
Because it is, bootlicker.
And slipperly slope is thing.

>>713769337 (OP)
>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal

>>713774668
>approached me in dms

>>713775005
He is mason

>>713775914
>regulating social media and preventing it from fucking up kids and people is communist

retard

>>713775032
"daterrr" isnt correct.
Data is prounced the same as "farter".

>>713776114
that's aussie

>>713771554
Better then kiwi farms anon.

>>713769337 (OP)
Games are fine if you limit them and spend time with your kids and have them do shit with their friends and go outside. Social media should not be anywhere near them though.

>>713776114
Thats because aussie speak is a retarded way of speaking english and its good thing its being replaced with mutt speak.That whole country should be firebombed or kangaroos given guns,steroids, and cocaine and released into the cities

>>713769337 (OP)
Games, no problem.
Social media? Anon, social media isn't even real anymore. Why would I let my kid interact with bots and adverts all day?

why do people have insomnia?
when I cant sleep I just get up and shit posting on 4chan until I want to sleep

>>713771952
Because the feeble grandparents are raising the kids not the millennials.
the millennials have failed their children

>>713777042
for most people it's because they use their phone in bed or drink coffee/energy drinks too much throughout the day

Everyone on 4chan was born with terminal autism and has the nerve to go "erm... it must've been the videogames! I would've been normal if it weren't for videogames!"
No, you would just have more painful memories of failed social integration.

>>713776005
ok fine it wasnt dms.
they invited me to their groups which they acted like it had cool stuff.
and then they showed me what they were about and told me that they can figure out where I live.
I deleted the app out of fear and thought that my family was gonna get murdered.

>>713775005
he is backed mostly by youtube and patreon. I am sure they care greatly about what is shown to the kids.

>>713776546
not gonna lie I find the Aussie accent on women extremely sexy

>>713775558
and they degrade your patience for being rewarded and finding closure.
for example I cant keep my mouth shut about overhearing people by accident and keep feeling the impulse to ask them what the context is like its a goddamn rpg.

>>713777626
man, I skip all the cutscenes in games, and every once in a while I wish I could just skip real people's dialogue too, or just leave a conversation without repercussion

>>713769907
Not only that, but it will also slow down the absorption by a couple of hours.

>>713773826
Melatonin isn't addictive and is natural, and it's much better than other hypnotics widely abused.

>>713778047
that will come into play when you turn off the video feed for a zoom call and fall sleep or go do something else. do it once and you cant help doing it every time.

>>713769337 (OP)
Honestly, I've been wondering if maybe social media isn't good for kids. By the time they grow up, they seem to get so sick of shit that they start withdrawing from it.
It's the adults on social media that wind up developing multiple neurosis'.

>>713776251
Yes, aka: correct

>>713777042
usually the people who have "insomnia" are drinking rum n cokes or starbucks coffees to try and fall asleep.
or they spend too much time in front of a screen ruining their circadian rhythm

>>713775167
That, and the obvious, like adjuvants in vaccines causing brain damage, and trauma based mind control through institutions such as schools. One thing not talked about often is the role of nutrition on generational degeneration. Watch this video on the effects on cats being given cooked meat, and then look at how people who eat modern goyslop are becoming more ugly and retarded with each new generation.

https://youtu.be/7m8kH8pdGPg

>>713778437
thats more got to do with the fact that 1. they are manchildren without any parents to ground them anymore 2. they think they are mature and that they cant do wrong things or get affected by participating in harmful behavior.
this causes them to not double check themselves in social media.
just teach them to always double check themselves and that they WILL not remain perfect all the time.
double checking your thoughts and actions is literally doing repair and maintenance on yourself which is very necessary.

>>713769337 (OP)
>games
eh, depends, it can be kinda beneficial, it can be really detrimental, but
>social media
the fucking worst. social media literally rots your brain, there's nothing positive about it. like zero positive qualities, there might've been some in fucking 2007 where you could argue it made it easy to keep in touch with your mates and organize or whatever, but in 2020s it's nothing but fucking brainrot. your kid will literally become a fucking retard from doomscrolling.

>>713777445
anon, they were literal scammers
scams like these are obvious as fuck

>>713778879
I was 8. this was so long ago that people still thought microsoft was a bunch of good guys.

>buy my nephew minecraft
>make a realm for us
>does nothing but try to push me
>ask him to stop so we can build a house
>he doesn't
>push him off a cliff once
>I can hear him crying in the distance to his mom
>"im sorry anon, but I don't think he's ready for this"

He didn't pass the test. My nephew is a normalfag.

>>713778838
I played lots of short games with meh beatemup gameplay on the ps2 cause the stories and characters were nice.
had to do with reading lots of story books before picking up video games.
no self inserting though. treated the stories more like movies.

>>713778974
>i was 8
understandable anon. if you wanna know more i recommend /r/scams, i check it out every now and again to educate myself. i actually told a chick at my work she was being scammed cause i recognized the exact same fucking script these brownoids use

>>713779039
lmao how old is this kid

>>713777592
yeh, they seem like they'd be easy

>>713779039
my nephew asked me for assasin creed 3's disc in secret, cause his mom doesnt want him borrowing things, and doesnt wanna buy him more games till he finishes the current ones.
I gave it to him and he told his mom.
his mom returned it to me.
like wtf man. he even acted as if this was natural. the dipshit couldnt wrap his head around what he did.

>>713769337 (OP)
>Many anons on /v/ look to have turned out normal
Dumb faggot this place is literally 80% twitter crossposters

>>713779039
How old is he exactly?

>>713779127
Im sure indians flood that place with old scams and delete any mentions of current scams.
like how r/piracy only allowed posting pirates who put miners in their installers and didnt list the other places unless right before a ddos attack to make it seem like those places are just getting more popular.

>>713777592
I suggest you watch farscape.
it was made in australia and the main girls in it sound hot as fuck.

>>713773652
Yeah but bluey got your fucken bubs speakin okka as cunt.

>>713769907
coffee actually makes you sleepy if you have ADHD

>>713779335
>Im sure indians flood that place with old scams and delete any mentions of current scams.
what, the subreddit? don't think so, but you do you. i learned a lot from it.

>>713773870
Australia is doing it. Aus under 16s will be banned from social media later this year, but it'll probably be a nothingburger because they can't enforce the kids or parents to abide it.

>>713778486
Aussie is Daahtah you lyin' cunt

>>713775914
>corpo bootlicker calling others bootlicker
lol, lmao even

>>713769337 (OP)
> video games
Not really
> social media
Absolutely
Did you see how awful "normalfags" social networks like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit? I wouldn't allow boys under 18 to access them and women to access them at all. Even 4chan in my opinion is less degenerate, at least blue boards

>>713777626
seems like a you problem

>>713779819
How do you even effectively stop a child from visiting those shitholes? Not buying them a smartphone and handing them a flip phone that does nothing but call people can work. A PC can have restrictions but they can also be bypassed or viewed on other PCs. Its like trying to stop your kid from seeing an R-Rated movie where Halle Berry gets fucked in her asshole. They're gonna find ways to do it.

>>713778318
>and is natural
So is estrogen, what's your point?

>>713778974
>I was 8. this was so long ago that people still thought microsoft was a bunch of good guys.
Social media didn't exist when people still thought Microsoft were the good guys.
Your entire larp is complete bullshit

>>713779086
>no self inserting though.
Self-inserting is for low iq retards anyway, it's where the entire MUHHHHH REPRESENTATION bullshit stems from

>>713779927
if everyone around the kid acts like doing something is wrong and abhorrent.
the kid will come to think that such a thing is wrong and abhorrent.
a young kid is impressionable because he is not sure if his actions and worldview is the correct one or not.

>>713779946
Other sleeping pills, like benzos and Z drugs, have high tolerance levels and are only meant for short-term use with greater side effects. Melatonin can be taken every night, as it's non-stimulating and has no recreational abuse.

>>713779927
>They're gonna find ways to do it.
but actively trying to prevent it does make them spend much less time on it

>>713780236
Nigger melatonin is a hormone. HORMONE. You are fucking with your endocrine system.
I am not saying that other shit is better, but taking hormones all willy-nilly just because you feel like it is always a bad call.

>>713780628
The recommended dose for melatonin is 0.5-1 mg, and it won't fuck up your endocrine system unless you give the pills to infants who have undeveloped endocrine systems.

>>713769337 (OP)
This right here is ruining the arts of humanity/society more then AI ever could. Attention spans so short that all you need is passable slop to entertain these nigger cattle.

>>713769337 (OP)
Vidya is finr. Social media however.

>>713769337 (OP)
It's time to blame Canada again.

>>713779927
Just like the Terrence and Phillips Asses of fire

>>713769443
this isn't video games or socmed, it's parents throwing their kids into a psych ward every time they say they feel a little sad or unsure of themselves.

>>713770002
>an actual server rack
for what purpose

>>713773297
strange how people didn't have this problem during the Great Depression or during 70s stagflation when things were much worse.

>>713781423
no kids didnt become faggots back then. just caused the crack epidemic. much better times indeed.

>>713779446
nol, it calms your mind a bit. your body is still hit with the fucking caffeine and gets wired.
dont repeat bullshit retards on reddit and tumblr think is real

>>713774049
>t. absolutely SHITTING himself over states requiring ID to use the internet

>>713781621
I'm not giving someone my fucking ID just to shitpost on 4chan

I will be banning my kids from the internet, not because it is bad for them, but because it is fake and gay and full of brown people and shitty thirdie propaganda and troons that will try to groom them

>>713781674
>government, regulate away bad parenting
>NO NOT WHEN IT AFFECTS ME
NIMBYs, every single time

>>713781621
that is in fact a reason to chimp out, because the ONLY real and intended use case for such regulation is policing what you do and say online
it is an implicit infringement of freedom of thought and expression, among other things, because it is a foregone conclusion that when these laws pass, policing what you do online is what is going to follow

>>713769337 (OP)
Entering Idiocracy era. Humanity is so fucked when millennials start dying out.

>>713773991
What is gibs

>>713781892
yes, that's what regulation is. the policing of behaviour and actions, and granting the government authority over your life. now you're learning!

>>713781806
anyone who trusts the american government to regulate something as detail oriented as parenting is retarded.