This was my experience. As a preteen and teenager, I was teaching myself web crafting and actual programming (C++, PHP, a dash of JS). But I was only allowed 30 min of programming or 30 min of TV. Drove me crazy!
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Unsupervised Youtube does seem dangerous for kids. Youtube's algorithms lean heavily toward exploitative clown shit that seems guaranteed to make kids incredibly stupid. Within an hour of following suggested vids from quantum mechanics, a kid will end up at Logan Paul.
I'm assuming you actually believe the sentiment behind this — Why? Where did you first hear it, or from whom? What's your experience with Youtube search/recommendations, and how would you change it?
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I actually spent some time a while back looking into this, and my conclusion was that "Youtube is radicalizing everyone" is an almost entirely manufactured meme that fed a lot of tribal interests too well to fail
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The problem is the opposite: it's mostly a depressant not a stimulant (and by mostly I mean by pure weight of content)
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I've seen the stuff my niece and nephew gravitate to on Youtube. It's worse than an "ow my balls" parody. I had to sit down with my nephew and show him a slower longer video and the cool stuff in it; he got totally engrossed, but nobody had done that before.
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Kids aren't designed by default to process complexity without a little help, while Youtube's algorithms are designed to allow professionals to exploit them at 80 second intervals with almost no interaction. It's the kind of thing Ray Bradbury would start a riot if he saw.
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We unschool. My 11-year old watches as much unsupervised YouTube as she wants, typically about 4 hours a day, mostly about Minecraft, Pokemon, and zany facts. I have seen nothing but beneficial effects. Minecraft videos taught her pattern language; Pokemon, street statistics.
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Are there things you actively try to teach her?
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