I don't remember restrictions like that in my time over 20 years ago
You probably had some restrictions. Not going out after whatever time, not watching TV until 4am, etc. This is just the same and I bet if the current social media stuff was around then you'd've been told not to stay up all night browsing it.
I wouldn't make myself tired on the week day as I'd be in trouble with the school. I got tired at the end of the day and settled down but not too early depending on how I was feeling. I use to stay up on the Fridays night to Sunday morning to see some movies I think did finish at about 4am in the morning.
I just had laptop with a few old computers but no phone, not much you could with them back then other than to make calls and seemed expensive at the time and no reason why I would want one. When I got dialup, the only restriction was that it was 1p a minute, then AOL came along with unlimited (actually had to reconnect on the 59th minute of the hour at first or I'd be charged at first) I spent as long as I liked on the weekends at night but never on the weekdays as that would make me tired for the next day. I remembered there were chat rooms (silly talk I found in many of them) and so on but didn't really interest me apart from a few lan games but I not good at those (if that's similar to social media stuff).
I remembered a boarding school I stayed at where there were some students who would spend a lot of their money talking to each other in the same building or virtually next door to one another all night from their beds load on these dot matrix phones that the staff had to tell them to stop due to the complaints from those trying to sleep.
If I was around 10 and that was done to me I'd go bezerk
aka throw a tantrum
Yes, why not? let them know how I feel and hand the device back (useless to me) or they may never know and do the same with other stuff.
So better not give me anything if they feel that way but I had no restrictions like that on anything like that.
I suppose there would be restrictions if I didn't manage myself.
I'd possibly save up for one so it doesn't belong anybody to put their hands on it.
You could afford to blow $100 or so at age 10? Hmmm.[/quote]
I'd try to save up my money if I really wanted something.
Anything given to me wasn't restricted and I did what I like with them.
Anyway, it's a real problem. An acquaintance recently asked me for help to restrict his internet after 8pm because his grandson was staying up all night playing in the intertubes. Not sure how old he is, but perhaps a bit less than 10. They'd tried unplugging the router and that kind of thing, but the kid would sneak down and plug it in again. It was a bad enough problem that the adults were willing to be cut off in order to stop the kid doing the internet equivalent of pissing off down the pub instead of going to bed.
You might have noticed that the Chinese have just slapped a 3-hour per week limit on young kids.
Good point there... that's a shame that some can't control themselves.
Never knew that about the Chinese but per week doesn't seem much.
I know someone who more han 10 years ago restricted their broadband using the router at a certain time but their children still stayed up over the school nights talking to their friends and playing games, watching films but by tethering their phones and racked up about £600 to £800 at a time.