#22

Mear of missing out

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#23

YOLO so MOMO

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#24
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#25

It would be if you were 6

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#26

I like how the “dare”/“challenge” part keeps just getting regurgitated unthinkingly in all the shitty clickbait reporting and stupid warnings about it.

How’s that meant to work exactly… You’re watching a video, a scary pic pops and then… Dare, Double Dare, Physical Challenge, Run The Risk, Kill Yourself???

And if that shit somehow had worked, wouldn’t there be some actual victims named in the media?

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#27

yeah you’re right, sorry

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#28

Can someone do a photoshop of Yo Yo Ma with the MOMO lady and Drake please so someone somewhere can do a Yo Yo, MOMO and YOLO thing

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#29

My general thing with this is, if it’s been reported in the Sun Mail, Express, etc etc then it’s bulls**t I can safely ignore. If it’s reported in the Telegraph, Times then it’s bullshit I can safely ignore. If it’s reported in the Independent etc then it’s cunting arsecrapshit I can safely ignore.

#30

Yep - not every primary school child’s parents lets them live out their spare time on playstations and the like or watch films that they’re not old enough to watch. Then that sort of picture is a bit of a shock.

#31

momo momo
don’t phunk with my heart

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#32

mo mo mo mo mo mo mo mo mo mo mo mo
there’s mo limits

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#33

Even fairly innocuous stuff can freak out my eldest (who is nearly 6) - I’m pretty sure that picture would cause a few weeks of difficult bedtimes and a 1am joining us in our bed.

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#34

When I was in early secondary school it was all about shocking people by someone pulling up dodgy websites with pictures of dead people in the IT lessons whilst the teacher wasn’t paying attention, bad shit! Obviously portable internet didn’t exist back then so it’s really worrying to think what people might be seeing much younger

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#35

hopefully education around the web and looking after your mental health with regards to it is a much bigger thing in schools now too

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#36

^this

we had rumours of things that existed (in print) or someone’s mate had seen an actual Necronomicon or watched a vhs of animal farm (not the orwell one) but it never made it to school and existed just in the imagination

#37

I’m not normally sensitive about these sorts of things, but an unpleasant image can be held in the memory for a long time. I’m really not a fan of mobile phones in school, and I’m not really looking forward to my children going to high school and having to deal with the whole social media gamut. We’re out in the sticks and try not to focus on technology too much at home (lots of stuff to do without having to muck about on phones all the time). Probably going to come back and bite us when our children are older though.

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#38

the person running the CBT course I’ve just been on was really keen on the idea of teaching it in schools. And I really agree with that.

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#39

Sort of - there’s a blurred line between what the school should be expected to do and what parents should do to educate their children on right and wrong (as in all aspects of life). Screen time is one of those things seen as an easy form of ‘parenting’ but then you have to be very on top of what your children can access.

#40

I do too, because sadly you can’t rely on us parents!

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#41

definitely think you could get PTSD or something similar from spending too much time in the darker parts of the internet. Even thinking about what is out there gives me a small burst of anxiety.

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