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Kids are short circuiting their school issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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[–] AprilShowers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

No doubt

Things like this were certainly better before social media, when a trend like this would be contained to a school and would be less likely to spread across the world.

I think if we knew what the capabiltiies of social media platforms would be 25+ years ago, it would certainly be something we would see coming. The idea that a teenagers telling a bunch of other teenagers hundreds of kiometeres away what dumb and dangerous idea they came up with is probably one of the more predicable things that has happened.