minusthebrandon

4 anni fadiscuss

I received a message from a recruiter there last week. I mentioned that I wasn't interested because of the crypto market right now. Her response was basically to say "just found out the position is no longer being filled", which I'm assuming is because of the impending layoffs. Then this week I see they laid off 30% of their staff. It's crazy to think that they hadn't stopped hiring long before they decided to cut 1,000+ jobs.

minusthebrandon

4 anni fadiscuss

For me, I notice that I get most engrossed in the code when there's a problem and I need to figure out how to solve it.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

This is the strangest and most satisfying discovery in a bit.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

Flirting and speaking a foreign language are a false equivalence to not knowing how to e-mail or use social media.

Whether using your definition or another, my point still stands that social media does not lead to GREATER social skills than previous generations possessed.

Not being skilled in ALL aspects of socialization isn't the same thing as lacking social skills in general.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

Once again... not knowing how to communicate via a particular medium does not equate to a lack of social skills.

To your point, if a telegraph operator handed me a message I didn't understand, I could just say, "Hey, I don't understand this message. Can you explain it to me?" because that is social skills.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

I will still say that lacking the ability to communicate via a particular medium is not the same as lacking social skills. My inability to send messages via Morse code over telegraph lines doesn't mean that I lack social skills.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

My parents struggling with e-mail is no way the same thing as lacking social skills. That just seems a lack of technology skills.

My point was that saying Snapchat or social media leads to greater social skills than what previous generations had is very hard for me to believe.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

Yes, she is 8. But even if she were 10 or 11, we'd probably keep similar restrictions. She does have access to FaceTime and our time restriction will probably grow as she ages.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

She's 8. I'll grant that this works for us now. As she ages, we'll give her more responsibility for handling boundaries on her own.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

She interacts with her peers at school and with her family... by that same token, ANYONE who grew up before Snapchat or the Internet had or has lacking social skills.

Also, she CAN FaceTime. I would not consider Snapchat or TikTok to be "socializing with friends" for an 8 year old.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

My wife and I both work full-time and we still stick to my daughter's iPad restrictions: only an hour a day, no Instagram or TikTok or YouTube at all, and she only gets it after homework and chores and other things are done. We never take it anywhere. It's important that parents set AND KEEP boundaries.

My daughter now knows not to expect to be able to Snapchat her friends or anyone else because she's never been able to. When she mentions that her friends all have it, we remind her that our house is not their house and we have our rules in place for a reason, which we are always willing to explain.

While I agree that screens and TV ARE very addicting, that doesn't mean that parents are powerless or that the majority of the problems brought up in this article are not the fault of the parents.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

There is an obvious difference between disagreeing with what someone says and believes and circling a petition that harms their livelihood because of said disagreements.

minusthebrandon

6 anni fadiscuss

Brilliant.org?

comments