Social media reset time

 

It was announced on Monday Under 16's would be banned from social media sites including Tic Tok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, X, Youtube (although Youtube kids might be exempted), Snapchat and Reddit.

In addition 16-18 year olds who are children will be subject to a curfew limiting hours online, the exact means not being specified as yet with the measures expected to be in effect Spring 2027.

In broad terms I agree having seen how much social media drama has moved into with hardly a day going by with pupils (purr-lease no students) and teachers dealing with matters that can just be an extension of traditional bullying, sexual matters shared for maximum emotional devastation and incitements for the most idiotic death inducing stunts. It's a long cry from scrumping apples, no homework and name calling.

Just on Monday a teacher had a child turn up late for class as they were on social media to 3am. Just think about that  -they are in no state to learn -, one pupil interviewed revealed they did 14hours a week  and more even when phones were allowed in school, another admitted his mate had a devasting time on social media and it upset him to see it.

It isn't that any kind of restrictions will be totally perfect but we have reach a crisis that everybody in society working with children are struggling to deal with and I hate to say it some adults are scarely any better either seeing the zombified masses, backs bent staring into screens as young children they are supposed to walking with are ignored.  It is clearly very addictive too. 

From my perspective things are out of control.

8 tracks

 This week we on about something else as this is typed on a wet summer Monday afternoon,

Some artists have a big influence on popular music because they push the boundaries well out, one of key prog rock groups and Pink Floyd was one having a good many studio albums and a few compilations of sorts over the years covering the 1967-71 era and 1971-94.

Some have tried to be almost suites made from original songs from the individual albums, others collections of curios - the sort of thing that appeals to hardcore fans - with obscure 'b' sides and remixes, others straightforward playlists that are largely redundent today in age of streaming.

Last Friday one came out that had a number of head scratching from the artwork with is lazy beyond words to just why they bothered.

8 tracks is an odd name as that's precisely how many tracks we have and three of them One Of These Days Wish You Were Here and Another Brick In The Wall are duplicated with 1981's A Collection of Great Dance Songs and that featured a re-recording of Money, a U.S. Single for contractual reasons as Capitol records wouldn't give permission to use the original.

So just do you get?

The big one is Pigs On The Wing which was split on the lp and cassette versions but a whole 8 track program with an exclusive Snowy White solo that we never had before and why some of us kept our Columbia 8 track tape copy around well after that faded from the audio mainstream.

Another Brick In The Wall is the whole Pt II version not an an edit of lp and the II singles version which is welcome as is Comfortably Numb one of the essential tracks from The Wall plus Time from Dark Side of the Moon with its striking clocks intro.

Wot's...Uh the Deal makes an appearance from 1972's Obscured By Clouds, the album that broke them on U.S. Underground FM Radio as unlike the UK, the US Radio regulator the FCC would not give simulcasting licenses so AM and FM stations had to have different programming.

The segues are handled well gently moving into each track so it's a good compilation but it needed to be programmed to compliment "Great Dance Songs" by using When Tigers Broke Free from 1982, Another One of My Turns (b side of Another Brick In The Wall) and Take It Back from Division Bell so the sets act as a retrospective with the odd twist.

What we had was nice but it needed much more thought and definitely a much better cover.

Worms and communications

It's Wednesday apparently and we're actually in Summer now.

Okay this week is cooler but that does tend to make for more time outside as the extremes of heat had in all honesty take it's toll on me, feeling rather off by thursday and friday so I tend to make up for thing by being out rather more.

Thus I don't just sit staring into my Chromebook all day suitably dressed as an asb/alb for hours on end reading this site, that site and checking over ours, I really need the fresh air and, yes, the exercise walking difficulties aside.

Sometimes you might be a bit rushed in responding to posts, I know sometimes I might with my wonky paws miss a word  with tremoring just to get yours in before you forget what whit fuelled comment or fact you wanted to toss into the discussion.

And that's before you bring in my Dyslexia and that affects all of us with it differently with ordering and especially spelling.

Sometimes to a few it's an irritant that gets them positively wild if there and their get muddled  or speech gains a middle ea  instead of ee as it were fruit hanging from a tree but most of the time people can make sense of what you're saying and be fairly sure what you mean.

While it's a pain I try to capture mistakes with either a dictionary, trying to learn some more every day spellings, a spellchecker on the Chromebook and that as I care to try to get as many right as I can.

What is trying for all is when words that form the Subject and Object cannot be easily made out and your friends and especially those of us who look after sites really haven't a clue just what you're talking about as without it we can't even try to correct it for you if you'd wish us to.

If you can possibly take a little more time and care when you post I'm sure we'd all appreciate it.