Those that are Omg about social media,

[PenelopeJoanSterling]

Long before time there was things called books and librarys, and a thing called reading fever which is akin in someway to social media addiction but for when books were first released i believe it was , i guess my point is why are some news articles saying about omg how will people handle not having social media, but then why not just go back to books ? afterall society was not built with modern internet

Exactly.

Most parents wouldn't dream of giving cigarettes to their children, but that doesn't mean the age 18 restriction amounts to state interference (to use a very simplistic analogy).

A passport isn't digital ID? What do you use to vote?

I'm 56 and OMG is very, cathartic.

Books versus Social Media? Do people not do both?

‘OMG’. Language is a good reason why social media needs more supervision and why we need books! Most parents do supervise their children. Others use social media instead of parenting.

I heard someone actually say ‘lol’ yesterday. In a sentence….It hurts my brain.

It can also be the new interesting, and useful for when you don't want to show your true feelings 😂OMG that's fab OMG that's messed up

Omg, we could start a club!
But not a book club, obvs.

(Edited to plop a truncation in the mix)

thats true

VPNs. How can they police those?

at the moment im not sure, eg opera browser has the vpn option and its free,

Omfg.

I found your sentences perfectly easy to read OP.
I'm 49 and occasionally use Omg!

I’m not saying you should never use ‘omg’, but it is said usually a response or reaction to something. What I am querying is what it means when you say a person is being omg.

Funny you should mention that.

The Russians are using social media to attack the UK.

The guy who got bubbled up yesterday goes by the pseudonym "EL" but was very likely a certain Evgeny Lyukshin, son of a Russian diplomat. He was promoting fake online "far-right" and "Muslim" groups, and recruiting proxies to carry out vandalism and violence in the UK.

The vandalism included targeting mosques and a Conservative Club. The violence included arson attacks on a car and property linked to the serving UK prime minister. Keir Starmer's sister-in-law was living in the property at the time of the attack.

Hybrid warfare, innit?

Standard Russian disinformation and real-world attacks that we're now rather familiar with.

Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2l352z2do

This.. parents should be policing their children and the government should be protecting our nation. Fat chance of either at the moment.

My 86 yo Gran says lol. She thinks it means "lots of love"

Thank you

well years before it was newspapers, leaflets, etc so hardly new methods. its like if social media disappeared im guessing we would have the number stations back in operation via radio

I back banning social media for children in principle but not when it requires us all to individually hand over our private data.

I also agree that not relying on social media for entertainment would be great for children and teenagers - yes in many ways it would be great to return to the halcyon pre-digital days...But, we are so digitised & underfunded as a society now that it wouldn't be a problem-free transition.

I haven’t heard anyone who is not happy about the ban. Just asked my 22 yr old amd she wishes she had t had access u til older. She got a phone when she went to secondary but we had not idea 10 years ago about what was on social media as we didn’t have it ourselves. Bring it on!

The ideal scenario would be that everyone could decide that for their own children, but the past 14 years of teaching has taught me that many, many parents prioritise a quiet life over the wellbeing of their children. Hence the 5 and 6 year old children in front of me who can’t write their name but can manage a TikTok account.

From what’s known at the moment this seems to be a standard type of warning as the yacht was drifting close to the Russian warship, nothing to do with Starmer's priorities

I presume OP means parents who are going "OMG" about the social media ban, that they're shocked, upset, or annoyed by it. I could be wrong, though.

Mibbe he's one of those rare humans who can prioritise and work on two or more things at once - especially if one of them is already done and dusted and is now "making news" well after the fact.

Exactly. As if the government are doing this to protect children!? No, for this scheme to work, it'll be up to everyone else to prove they are not a child...

I don’t really get the issue about private data, in this day and age loads of companies have your data. If you trust the website, give it, if not, don’t