I wish there was a system where parents get an app on which they have to approve friend requests for their children in these games and only people on their children‘s friendlist can read/hear them and be read/heard by them. And obviously only parents can send out requests. That way, parents could make sure only their kids‘ school friends can talk to them.
Obviously, they can‘t make new friends online then, but that‘s for when they‘re older…
Seems more reasonable and better to me than nothing. Or than scanning kids‘ faces.
that’s horrible for queer or disabled kids who need to connect to online communities of peers who are going through the same struggles they face.
most kids rely on their parents to go places and if they’re in a conservative area, online spaces are their only reprieve from their alienating local community. think only Black kid in a sundown town, only trans girl in a red town, only wheelchair user in a rural community
I wish there was a system where parents get an app on which they have to approve friend requests for their children in these games and only people on their children‘s friendlist can read/hear them and be read/heard by them. And obviously only parents can send out requests. That way, parents could make sure only their kids‘ school friends can talk to them.
Obviously, they can‘t make new friends online then, but that‘s for when they‘re older…
Seems more reasonable and better to me than nothing. Or than scanning kids‘ faces.
that’s horrible for queer or disabled kids who need to connect to online communities of peers who are going through the same struggles they face.
most kids rely on their parents to go places and if they’re in a conservative area, online spaces are their only reprieve from their alienating local community. think only Black kid in a sundown town, only trans girl in a red town, only wheelchair user in a rural community