If there is one thing I can fucking guarantee is that teens will not use a platform their parents are using. I think this, more than any other reason, is why facebook has become a ghost town.
this wouldn't be as big of a problem if US (and elsewhere, but especially the US) parents in general had any sense of boundaries
all this child surveillance technology really worries us
there's a pretty good chance that we would not have survived to adulthood if this creepy surveillance and control shit had existed when we were kids
like, we made it because we knew from an early age that our survival was contingent on keeping our gender and sexuality stuff secret. we did that successfully, because we were way better with computers than our alleged parents and there were no turn-key solutions they could use. today we have leveraged that lived experience into a career in information privacy, a field which turns out to be disproportionately full of trans people, even compared to other areas of computing, for reasons we find obvious.
that's great for us, and all, but a core motivator behind this kind of tech is to kill queer children. it MUST be stopped, so that future generations can have the same opportunities we did. such as they were.
