It depends what the genie includes, I guess, in terms of being public and living online. It's hard to know if that's even something we should be trying to prevent and prohibit. We're trying to figure out the best way to do it, the best way to welcome kids into this world they're being born into. There's not really an alternative. They're getting school lessons and homework that gets them on social media. A lot of social interaction happens there. There are opportunities to be political, to find out about important events. There's a ton of benefits. It's how you balance the benefits and the risks, I think, instead of just focusing on one or the other.
In terms of parents' involvement, young kids and parents often come as a unit. A lot of these things are family processes that families are going through together. How families negotiate those is really important, but it can't be left completely to the families to make these types of decisions. As you say, not all parents know everything there is to know. This is new and fast-moving. It's hard for people to keep up. It's a huge burden to expect parents to be able to monitor and regulate every single thing their kids do. If they offload that responsibility onto something like a cyber-nanny program, a number of those have actually been investigated for doing a huge amount of data-mining on the kids they're protecting from particular sites and what not.
Approaching this as a family issue is definitely a useful way to think about it, but families also need support. Families need guidelines. Families need experts and politicians and lawyers on their side as well to think about how best to manage these things and support the best practices that do emerge and not to put all the burden on individual families to come up with solutions to very complex problems.