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I don’t think it is the same.

When I’m scrolling IG, sometimes I see violence, fights, etc. I’m most definitely not someone who likes to watch this stuff, yet I get random reels sometimes showing me this category.

It makes me question what kind of things a 10 year old is encountering.

For fast food, a responsible parent can quite easily control it. So can smoking.

“…what kind of things a 10 year old is encountering”

10yro doesn’t know their a$$ from their elbow. They go looking for w#atEver’s and once that’s in their feed, there is no reset to that body of preferences.

Side note, I was shocked the other day when one of my Claude sessions brought up context from an unrelated chat.

They scroll right? If IG is showing me real violence on reels, what could they be inadvertently showing to kids?

“They scroll right?”

Well, it’s not the scrolling, it’s the clicking. Isn’t it?

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