EvaDec 20, 2022

When I tell parents that secretly spying on their kids' internet activities is not a great look, they ask me "Well, what SHOULD I do?"

There is no all-purpose parenting answer, but this report from Malwarebytes outlines many of the key considerations: https://www.malwarebytes.com/resources/attachments/parenting-and-growing-up-online-10-2022.pdf

Show threadWill SmithDec 20, 2022

@evacide My daughter is nine, and the number of conversations I've had with her peers' parents that treat their kid's relationship with technology as inimical is shocking. You just have to talk to them about what they're finding online and why it is (or isn't) bad.

And teach them to use a password manager from the beginning.

Show threadQuinn NortonDec 20, 2022
@will @evacide honestly talk about the architecture a bit. kids can follow the relationship between, say, cookies and tracking, and they make quite logical and sensible choices once informed.
Show threadWill Smith
@quinn @evacide Exactly! Explaining the difference between searching for something you want to watch on YouTube vs letting the YouTube algorithm shovel increasingly irrelevant garbage recs gave her the info she needed to make informed choices. And it worked.
Dec 20, 2022 at 10:25pmWeb
Show threadQuinn NortonDec 20, 2022
@will @evacide 🙌 ain’t no replacement for really talking to your kids.