We have an account for our 10 year old. Friends have them, its like a baseball card for your kid. We only focus on the positive aspects of the game. It is parent managed. It is strange to have one. The kids do like it. Our does not have a phone and as limited on screen time. I think it can be bad thing if it's not managed or checked by the parents. I don't get the flaming or burn videos. I think you have to show good sportsmanship on the field and online as well.

Anonymous wrote:I’m old enough to remember other new technologies that were going to harm kids and be the downfall of society. Video games in the 80s. Before that it was TV. Remember how latch key kids were going to be depressed and forgotten? Turned out it made for a lot of independent capable kids. Social media is here to stay. So is AI. It’s not going to be disastrous. It will be different than how we grew up just like it was different for us.

IDK. Does feel like some are definitely letting it rip from midfield hoping for a clip.

I’m old enough to remember other new technologies that were going to harm kids and be the downfall of society. Video games in the 80s. Before that it was TV. Remember how latch key kids were going to be depressed and forgotten? Turned out it made for a lot of independent capable kids. Social media is here to stay. So is AI. It’s not going to be disastrous. It will be different than how we grew up just like it was different for us.

Anonymous wrote:Social media is singlehandedly killing youth soccer in this country...

I hear you but let's play devils advocate. It could possibly be making it better. For those kids with high hopes and super competitive it may be what drives some of these kids watching their current and potentially future competition putting in work. Also when we were younger the only training vids we had available were Coever coaching vhs tapes lol, now you can pop on and see how your favorite pro or even teammate prepares and trains. Like anything with the internet it can definitely be advantageous and there will always be people that use it incorrectly.

Social media is singlehandedly killing youth soccer in this country...

Anonymous wrote:I remember getting out the phone book and prank phone calling the kids who we were going play that weekend.

“I’m gonna nutmeg you and there’s nothing you can do about it,”. Click.

So much fun.

What's a phone book?

I think it’s bad for youth soccer. Perhaps makes kids more selfish. Gotta get those clips.

#kicks4clicks

Anonymous wrote:I remember getting out the phone book and prank phone calling the kids who we were going play that weekend.

“I’m gonna nutmeg you and there’s nothing you can do about it,”. Click.

So much fun.

Lol hilarious.

Anonymous wrote:Eight year olds building a brand on Instagram is completely normal.

But they're just doing it for the grandparents! The profile set to public is just an accident....

I remember getting out the phone book and prank phone calling the kids who we were going play that weekend.

“I’m gonna nutmeg you and there’s nothing you can do about it,”. Click.

So much fun.

Anonymous wrote:Eight year olds building a brand on Instagram is completely normal.

The question is not whether it is normal, but whether it is healthy, and it is pretty clear that neither brandbuilding by eight year olds on or off social media and social media for kids is unhealthy. So yes, herd members, please feel free to have your kid be normal.

Eight year olds building a brand on Instagram is completely normal.

Anonymous wrote:What happened to the innocence of youth? Nowadays, kids are on social media bragging about their "clean sheet" in futsal and celebrating victories over this team or that one, only to go completely silent when they lose.

The difference between the 70's and 80's and 90's is the social media

We all bragged and hid when we lost or took the banter

What happened to the innocence of youth? Nowadays, kids are on social media bragging about their "clean sheet" in futsal and celebrating victories over this team or that one, only to go completely silent when they lose.