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Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

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Re: Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

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Nature finds a way :-p Also, who allows their 10-12yr old children to use TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat, FFS!

I never really know what to think about this issue, On the one hand I used the internet unsupervised at around 10 and I think it was positive and I really do wonder if the extreme stuff such even murder videos and such are actually that bad for children in that lots of children would have seen execution's of people in the past. On the other hand I think the most negative thing about the internet today is social media and the sort of socialization it provides, The sort of way even fully grown adults treat influencers and the sort of trite conversations that you will now have with people on various topics and are only capable of holding these positions that youtubers have told them to. All of this has always existed of course but now the internet amplifies this and has connected too many people together and amplified the most stupid qualities of theses people and by extension society at large. Just look at the way are industry of supposed intelligent people have adopted the phrase 'token-maxxing' and other phrases that are just stupid. I think this is what is most damaging to children being exposed to that much stupidity that has been given far too much dignity.

Re: Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

#22

The teeth have to apply to the social media companies. Fines for under-16 users.

Such a thing would require mandatory age verification of every user of the platform, which is obviously a significant privacy complication.

Re: Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

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Do you think parents have a say in it? Kids find a way. Kids just don't understand the effects that it has on them

> Kids just don't understand the effects that it has on them Neither does anybody else since it's not settled science. And even then it's questionable how much you can trust the science due to the replication crisis. My parents believed that sitting too close to the TV ruined my eyesight, rather than it being an indicator that I needed glasses.

OTOH turns out spending time outdoors during childhood appears to reduce the risk of developing myopia.

Re: Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

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Do you think parents have a say in it? Kids find a way. Kids just don't understand the effects that it has on them

Kids cant find a way if they dont have access to a phone. To be able to do this they need unrestricted access to a smart phone in their personal time. This is something parents very much can control for 10-12yr olds.

A parent can reasonably ensure that their child doesn't have a phone. Ensuring that they don't have access to a phone is much more difficult. I suppose that you can insist that your children only socialize with other children under your supervision, the effect of which is twofold: you can see that they don't use a phone, and they will be much less likely to have friends in the first place.

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Do you think parents have a say in it? Kids find a way. Kids just don't understand the effects that it has on them

You enable parental control on the phone before you give it to your kid. Then you can easily manage allowed applications/web sites and screen time.

A lot of parental control systems stop working when they turn 13 so you have a system that works fine and then suddenly it stops working. I know a lot of parents who have complained about this.

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It’s an AFP story - that’s a reputable news service.

And did you check where the information comes from?

AFP is where France24 got their information, and both AFP and France24 are reliable sources of news. Maybe you had an issue with the source AFP relied on?

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Do you think parents have a say in it? Kids find a way. Kids just don't understand the effects that it has on them

Kids cant find a way if they dont have access to a phone. To be able to do this they need unrestricted access to a smart phone in their personal time. This is something parents very much can control for 10-12yr olds.

It's very hard to not give them internet access at all though even if you don't give them a phone, because they need it for homework and you can't and don't want to supervise them every moment they are doing homework.
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