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Jeremy Busfield's avatar

"By their very nature, social networks are like Centerparcs for the socially maladapted."

Awesome sentence and wonderfully perceptive point 👏 👌 👍 thank you.

And one of many in this great article 🙏

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Rowan Davies's avatar

Thank you!

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Andrew's avatar

“take a quick stocktake of everyone’s bladder and bowel capacity, bearing in mind that your companions either cannot or will not answer accurately”

So often it is “will not”. Child emphatically does not need to go bathroom, eventually agrees to sit on toilet, is surprised to discover that they not only needed to go but to do so urgently

The Bluey TV show uses the term “tactical wee” for proactively going to the bathroom before going out, and I have found my toddlers react to that much better than “please just try”

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Rowan Davies's avatar

My kids are old (relatively) - old enough never to have seen Bluey (unless *that’s* how they’re spending their spare time at university). But I do very much like the sound of a programme that talks about tactical wees - this is public service broadcasting at its finest.

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Redbeard's avatar

lol…good reminder of the tactical wee concept.

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Jo McManus's avatar

Thank you for writing this. So wise.

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Rowan Davies's avatar

That’s kind, thank you

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Tess Dixon's avatar

Thank you for having the wherewithal to recognize a time when you were being insufferable, and to write about it so unflinchingly. Unfortunately it seems like so many people online have no sense of introspection, let alone healthy thimbleful of shame, with which to temper their self-righteous zeal. This is probably why lately I often find myself opening social media for my daily perusal, then immediately feeling my blood pressure uptick after skimming a few lines, and promptly setting the phone back down again. 🫠

You also nailed it re: moderation and how it really establishes a certain lens through which you must always view the internet. What has been seen cannot be unseen, etc.

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