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

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

Not enough x to be fun
- Threshold for rolling is 120mg
  I’m more of a 350mg gurl tho, I want my eyes to never stay still

"Butters? Are you on Twitter?"

"No Dad! Just watching porn!"

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

This what we're calling gen alpha then?

Apple is gonna love that free advertising

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.

Terminally online toddlers

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

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.

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.

It highly depends on country, region, socioeconomic factors etc.
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'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

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.
- Yeah but 4chan could actually be fucking solid at time, tg was always fun. Oh and the image board format made the schizo posts fucking hilarious sometime. Also my little pony cum jar, that level of degeneracy is far more isolated on twitter.

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...

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

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.
- 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.
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.