New York lawmakers are cracking down on kids’ exposure to social media algorithms | If passed, anyone under 18 would require permission from a parent or guardian to view content on accounts they do…::If passed, anyone under 18 would require permission from a parent or guardian to view content on accounts they don’t follow.
This won’t do anything assuming it’s just an “are you 18?” question like there is on porn sites.
I guess it might help with some sites, where kids just scrolled into it but don’t care about it. In cases where they want to see the feed/‘for you’ page, then yep agreed.
If it works out the way I’m hoping for, this might help a lot of OTHER people avoid the algorithms/feeds/suggested posts when they intentionally want to avoid them. I’d love to have a filter like this where I can toggle it off.
- YouTube’s recent change has been really nice, I like only seeing content from subscriptions
- I’d love to remove suggested posts in Instagram, I don’t like random suggested posts mixed in with content from friends/family, and I snooze it every 30 days. If this also blocks the suggested reels page, I’ll probably save a lot more time.
- I don’t use Facebook/Snapchat that much anymore, but it would probably help there too
So honestly, don’t even need to focus on the kid aspect. Make it mandatory to include a toggle to turn off suggested posts. That way, we also don’t have to worry about this turning into a “link your government ID to your social media” situation
I stopped using Facebook when I had to reset the sort to Time instead of suggested every login. That was about 10 years ago so I’m glad to see some progress on the issue.
Yeah that worked for porn!
I’m not giving my id. Period
