if you're 10-12 years old and on this site... maybe don't be....

1714420585

I can relate because I am already messed up.

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1710992811

this is especially relevant now. The number of iPad kids is only increasing, and with them the amount of 18+ content. I’m sorry that these children can ruin their psyche because their parents, instead of raising them, give them a phone or a computer without restrictions and parental control.

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1710987190

The only good thing is they'll grow up with a classic interface site.

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1710973415

as a 16 year old on here, I once got friended by a 12 year old, immediate block, i don't wanna associate with people under 14 tbh.

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1710949495

Curr3ntly 19 and had supervis3d int3rn3t 'till 13 and lik3- the stuff p3ople young3r than m3 would b3 a part of, one of which b3ing som3 g0r3 chall3nge which I'm not gonna list here sinc3 it was icky

My advice is if you're under 13 on the internet never reveal much of your info to anyone like age, location, state, and stay out of mature groups. I get it, we all wanted to be mature but I can assure you the stuff they're doing is anything but

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1710937937

as someone who went from super sheltered, 0 internet access, to suddenly full unrestricted internet access when i was 11, i couldn't agree more.

i was a kid not long ago. i remember, i get it. you dont wanna listen to some adult telling you to follow the rules. it just feels like you're being looked down on. i was the same way. but if you're a kid reading this, im not looking down on you, none of us are. we just want you guys to be safe, it's more important than anything.

being unsupervised on the internet with no idea of the horrors out there was incredibly dangerous. my first years on the internet genuinely traumatized me and ruined my life so much, and i got LUCKY. i didn't even experience the worst of it. very few people can say the same for themselves. so if you're 13 or younger, just wait a few years, please. and research how to be safe on the internet. because putting yourself in danger doesn't make you cool, or mature. or whatever you've been lead to believe. it just makes you in danger.

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1710929431

i waas gonna say real and then i realized i turned 13 10 days ago :skull: im literally fresh out the womb and i still agree. i know its not safe for anyone on t he internet ever these days but little kids (like me. sigh) are growing up so fast that if you see any1 hanging out at my local town center theyre filming tiktoks and wearing clothes for 17 year olds. and its kinda sad bc i get bullied for doing "childish" stuff like roller skating or watching invader zim and reading comics. the 2010s was peaking and ik kids still evaded tos back then too but i miss it

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1710917305

When I was 7, I started a YouTube account -- like back when the site was barely a year old by that point. Let me tell you this, I got some of the craziest messages sent to me and some of them were comments on videos that I uploaded. One guy was pretending to be a lil kid, one guy threatened to kill my entire family while spamming that the video was gay and r*tarded in all caps, and that one guy was just my friend who I told about the site who probably got some creepy messages too. "So what did you do with the videos?" I deleted all of them. I wish I still had the videos, but they're probably sitting in the attic on a dying hard drive along with DV tapes kept in the worst condition imaginable.

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1710910140

I agree, I have seen horrible things due to being an ipad kid with unrestricted internet access, as much as I wouldn't trade that for anything, I've witnessed some horrible stuff 10-11 year old me shouldn't have witnessed, I wish the 13+ rule was more enforced onto social media.

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1710896640

look we may be young but in 4th grade people moaned in the closet and that ruined it for me soo

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1710882043

oh yea man, i was friends with this one guy on discord who makes games and he has a website for his gamedev group. he calls it "rational studios". if you think im lying here is his website https://www.rationalstudios.org

so i was friends with him cus i also make games and tbh they are all really shitty and he has more talent then i could ever have, and one day i wanted to start a movement (yes i know kinda retarded but eh im diagosed so what did you expect) and it was about "clensing the world", very original old me... or young me. So then after that he says "national socialists do what you are doing"

so then he was talking about what national socialism is and went back and fourth on the word nazism too which kinda tangled my brain and then he went on a full rant and speech on the whole thing and i was just eating that shit up like some nice ravioli.

he then convinced me that im a national socialist (nazi) and that im into nazism
now that i believe that i am a "national socialist" i went in school and went on and on about it which almost got me arrested
he then blocked me because of how many times he said the nword including times when he said the hard r...

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1710881334

yes so real omg!!

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1710881332

yes so real omg!!

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1710878787

real, the internet is a dark place and I think the new gen need to stay away from the internet, They don't understand how much trauma and hurt they can get at an age when your brain is developing into new things that can hurt them. Being 8 years old and being exposed to uncensored pornography, videos of dead bodies and trying to help people who are twice my age and trying to convince them not to commit suicide was terrible, because no one monitored these sites for me, and that hasn't changed...I understand the curiosity but it's also It's the fault of the parents, who don't pay attention to what your children see on the Internet, but usually do it in secret from the parents, at least I do. I know they won't listen to me because it seems cool now and the world is better because our society has changed since then, but you still can't escape these things

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1710870315

i;ve already commented on here but this . this is so true real correct.l

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1710858248

agreed. for yall saying that it's fine because this website is moderated, you're wrong. i was on amino when i was younger, which was moderated. i was exposed to so much stuff there. while there are good things on the internet, there are some things that kids shouldn't be exposed to. also, yall who are under 13 are breaking the terms of service by being on this app

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1710847854

this website is moderated you know

these are places people go to, to mature really

and to stay young, as not maturity death



but the internet being the wrong thing for people is it seems a problem more related to intersectional issues, rather than worrying about ones mind being corrupted so they can check out on self-respect like social insipid flagelation

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1710826219

OMG IK I see my 4 year old cousins on Youtube with their parents not even paying attention to what they're watching its so scary

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1710773105

this happened to me too! it really fucked me up in the head and i WISH i cld take the laptop away from 12 yr old me.

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1710759998

Im willing to say anything 15 and under should have parental supervision. But maybe im saying that because i’m old (envision me throwing glitter here while paying for health insurance). Either way, it should be discouraged. Especially when people post their faces and photos of themselves. Those pictures can be tapped very easily, too.

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