each of us is the main character of our own life .... but let's be honest some are more main character than others
tech builds these individualistic devices and accounts and ux patterns and then layers on some afterthought sharing and messaging... sometimes there's an owner or admin of a group... or sometimes it's one big container / wiki w individual user accounts and admin to set them up...…
hard to describe because it's a pattern that doesn't really exist, but like... rather than one owner distributing roles n permissions including delegation of the authority to further distribute them... what if capabilities were granted from observable behavioral & social cues?
and cross-application social identity... if you block me on bsky you block me irl, etc
young children should not be treated like any other user, they should be embedded in a social graph of parents and relatives and caretakers as well as irl peers, with their ability to see and do things curated by the older wise trusted network around them, teaching and…
phone bans and locking kids out of social media isn't quite the answer- we should be parenting them towards healthy prosocial use of technology; our tech should deeply support these use cases