Pricey Annie: I simply learn a narrative within the newspaper about some highschool boys utilizing synthetic intelligence to create nude photos of ladies in the identical faculty after which posting them on social media. I additionally learn a narrative earlier about one thing related taking place in Spain.
As the daddy of a grade faculty daughter, I’m actually alarmed about what is going on with AI because it impacts children at the moment. It’s all a part of social media, which could be so harmful for kids. It takes bullying to an entire new degree.
I keep in mind when there was an incident at my daughter’s faculty the place a boy posted a photograph of one in all her mates and requested the opposite boys within the class to touch upon her appears. A number of have been complimentary, however some have been downright vicious. Are you able to think about being that woman?
Possibly we’d like legal guidelines to maintain younger folks off social media, simply as now we have legal guidelines retaining them away from alcohol and tobacco. I’m curious to listen to your ideas.
— Anti-Social Media for Children
Pricey Anti-Social Media for Children: I agree with you 100%. Social media for teenagers is dangerous sufficient, however throw in AI and also you’ve obtained a recipe for catastrophe. Bullying has been round perpetually, however when at the moment’s adults have been children, in the event that they have been bullied, it was personal and non permanent. However on social media, bullying is everlasting; it’s virtually unimaginable to take away a digital footprint — and public. Everybody sees it. No surprise there was a rise within the variety of teenage suicides.
Based mostly on the variety of letters I’ve been receiving on this topic, the politicians must unite in clamping down on the forces which can be making this nightmare of public and everlasting bullying doable.
Pricey Annie: Relating to your response to “Not a Household Vacation in PA,” I had an analogous dilemma with my youngsters from a former marriage, my in-laws, my ex’s household after which my grownup youngsters’s new in-laws.
My answer was to rejoice every vacation on the Saturday after. I didn’t need my youngsters to have to select and select the place they spent the vacation, and I a lot most well-liked having all of them collectively. I advised all of them that I used to be going to be egocentric (wink, wink) and didn’t need them to be operating round. I wished them simply to spend the entire day collectively. It labored very nicely for us for simply over 20 years. Now these ex in-laws have all handed away and their father is not within the image, so issues have grow to be a lot easier.
My one daughter-in-law has since taken on internet hosting duties, and all of us collect at their home the day of. I typically suppose they really miss the “sequence” of celebrations that we used to have. Plus, I had the added bonus of with the ability to hit all these after-Christmas gross sales and pad my gift-giving talents.
Hope this affords others with the identical dilemma a unique answer.
— Mother of 5 in California
Pricey Mother of 5: Thanks on your suggestion. You’re very artistic and warm-hearted, and your answer was fantastic and can assist others.
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