Online content distribution and commercialization has made the net pretty much a red light district to some degree. Typical. As were bill posters 10 years back by M&S. Anyway.
So I have come up with a means to steer the net in the right way for net developers.
Kids go on phones and mobile devices and how much longer are we going to have the laptop for?
Anyway for an idea… while developing my own hobby site www.dortju.com I noticed my right header menu did not appear on phones. But my main header menu did.
So I put my blog, a novel and a business link in the main header. This would thus show up on a mobile device. The business link leeds to a copy of my 60,000 word novel or some garden herbs namely theme. Kid friendly in my book.
I put the dating section on the right header menu. This doesn’t show up on mobile devices. And it may on tablets I’m only just field testing this idea but I think it could set a good trend.
Set our sites to have sections that may be a place for abusive behavior out of reach from mobile devices and only selectable from a laptop or PC!
Of course this trend might end up with more teenagers on laptops than mobile devices learning about programming of websites and how boundaries between PC/laptop access and mobile phone access helps protect our young from the worst of online content.
That doesn’t sound like a bad life lesson to me for a 13 or 14 year old.
Then set all mobile devices to be barred from receiving any inappropriate content.
Of course a provisio could be embedded to bypass this ‘soft’ firewall but it could work from just a design perspective.
Web designers well know it could be any other part of the page that doesn’t display on a mobile device.
My point stands we could make a stand to make the net mobile friendly just for the young. ie zero adult content to any mobile device.
Of course then the age limit would need to be set for when a child get’s access to a laptop vs a mobile device…
I think it’s a trend worth trying for by wed developers.