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HN is a message board. I was on Slashdot back as a teenager, and I think that was fine. Completely different than Facebook and Instagram for one thing based entirely on text and communication rather than pictures and materialism.

> Let's be real about the risks: statistically speaking, the most dangerous adults to a child are not strangers, they're the child's own parents

Depends on what danger you’re talking about.

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> I was on Slashdot back as a teenager, and I think that was fine

"Everything that happens before the age of thirty-five is normal. After that, everything is a symptom of aging."

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

– Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

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