u/ConstantDismal4220

Hi colleagues. Our provincial government is bringing in a social media ban for kids 16 and under. I’ve spent a ton of time creating great resources to help kids stay safe online and understand how social media works, how to maintain autonomy and a bunch of other stuff (media literacy) Should I throw it all out the window? Or do you see a need for kids to learn this stuff anyway? And if so, do you have support for teaching it, considering kids are allegedly not on social media anyway? Much of the resources use real-world examples and need news stories about social media, so now I feel a bit stuck. I personally feel like kids are going to get around this ban and be online anyway, while we feign ignorance and throw them to the wolves because now we can’t educate them about this. Thoughts? Experiences based on your own legislation?

I’m middle aged with boomer parents, have worked hard for advanced degrees while raising kids, and finally landed a job that uses my skills and passions AND pays over 100k. Damn how good it would feel to be able to phone one my parents and have them pepper me with excited questions and love. But I’m not even going to tell them. They know my current position is expiring soon and haven’t asked once about future plans. If I called them they would ask me if I really think I’m qualified or what I did to cozy up to management. So I’m sharing here, because you people get it, and dammit I want to tell SOMEONE because this is such good news!