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RE: From Lurker to Stalker
It isn't in the usage, it is in the ability to identify potential threats. I wrote a post a while ago about people teaching their kids not to talk to strangers which is a dangerous practice. Instead, parents should teach children to recognise strangeness so then they can identify well and avoid dangerous situations.
Youre right. Come to think of it, limiting their usage isnt really the true solution since they will always find a way to use it anyway. Your opinion of learning how to recognize strangeness is a much better solution now that i think about it. But its a tricky solution, since kids are rather limited in their judgement since they still dont have much experience yet in terms of interacting with people. Even educating them with how to spot strangeness has its limits since they can only know so much based on what we teach them. and people with bad intentions always are one step ahead of us in terms of using ingenuity and tactics to get what they want and they always come up with new ways to do it. We will only know how to avoid it if we heard about it happening to other people. In my opinion, i guess limiting their usage, checking up on how they are using it and teaching them on how to stop strangeness can go hand in hand in order to prevent children from being taken advantage of. Just my two cents bro.
Yes, it takes vigilance and a willingness to learn on the part of the parents, not parenting on intuition. It has to start relatively young and actively developed while at the same time, parents are learning.
As you said, there are some that are always a step ahead and we generally only learn when it 'happens to someone else'. This is why rather than thinking in the group, we should spend some time in the uncomfortable simulation of someone that means harm. The mind of the psychopath so to speak.
I see that this simulation helps prepare in numerous ways and gives guidelines of where we are strong and where we are not but most are unwilling to even think of terror, let alone prepare for it.
Sadly thats the truth in this world bro. Most people are unwilling to think of terror let alone prepare for it. Thanks for sharing your insights bro. I love interactions like this. Giving opinions and insights back and forth. Cheers taraz!