The US Surgeon General is now warning parents not to allow children 13 and under to use social media. ABC News’ Derricke Dennis has more on the possible risks. #socialmedia #parents #abcnews
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The US Surgeon General is now warning parents not to allow children 13 and under to use social media. ABC News’ Derricke Dennis has more on the possible risks. #socialmedia #parents #abcnews
Original source (ABC/Youtube)
As if kids can't lie about their age.
They should just banned those social media platforms if they are worried
100% 13 is too young. 15-17 at the earliest should be law
Is the purview of each state in the United States of America. Not his decision rightly or wrongly. Same as abortion.
Social media should be limited to 18 or older.
This is absurd. All of these concerns happen IRL. Social media is only as good/bad as how you use it.
🛑 Stop blaming tools for individual problematic behaviors. ✋
agree… it's bad for adults too.. it's all garbage that is destroying our attention span, social skills, and our democracy
Zuckerberg saying they’re are positive benefits is like a heroin dealer saying his drugs have positive benefits
It already affects brain chemistry on adults. Social media in general is incredibly unhealthy and toxic. Just yesterday I was hearing a radio ad about taking legal action on social media's if you ever felt it affected you or a family members life in anyway. It's about time people started taking a serious stand on this issue. Some people are blaming their problems on mental health issues but Social media is the cause of their problems. I deleted all my social media's almost a month ago and before that I used to blame my innatentiveness on adhd which was affecting my college performance but ever since I deleted them I've been doing amazing focusing on my current classes. We need to fight this now or it will be too late in the future people will become so incredibly addicted that it will feel nearly impossible to stop. They purposely make these platforms to be addictive. They're no on our side
If parenting isn't hard as hell, then it's not parenting. I don't let my teens use social media and we live in a metropolitan area therefore they're surrounded by teens whose parents let them destroy themselves with social media and unrestricted gaming so that they can feed their own social media addiction and/or so they can work more to pay for their luxury vehicles. I used social media myself in the past so I know first hand that it's a dead end road of narcissistic self-destruction; it was very difficult to quit long-term but thank God I have my life back including RELATIONSHIPS with my kids who appreciate that I don't allow them to hand their souls over to the social media/gaming profiteers.
Require payment for social media accounts.
That's the only way I can see this working in any way.
Social media company will fight it as it will change their growth and engagement and new users addition since most of their growth stem of younger age.
Put it at 16
This is lazy babysitting. If you want a kid with issues, go ahead and get them a phone. My kids don't get a smartphone until they are 16.
Let kids be kids again. No social media or LGBTQ curriculum before 16. We're ruining our future generations.
A bit too little too late.
Derricke Dennis got that tiny head big body character creation going on 🤣😂🤣😂
I am going to take a moment to speak about this because it is something that I am very passionate about being an internet developer since the 1990's. First, you need to understand that younger generations do not feel the issue the way that older generations do, because it's always been this way, they do not know of anything different. If they do not know anything different, they can not see that it's a problem. For most people, the internet is a play ground… social media is their outlet. They don't take it very seriously and will post most anything they find a bit humorous no matter how accurate it is or who else may also be looking at it. Adults get online to bully other adults because they do not take it very seriously. Adults also have self esteem issues and seek to feel better about themselves from their posts (Likes). Usually that post belittles a category of people or the post is to make their lives seem better. Kids are watching and they learn this behavior at an early age. This results in seeking validation via the internet… and that's a problem.
We've seen kids die from doing "challenges" that they are told make them seem "cool". Eating Tide pods, snorting condoms up their noses, attacking random people on the streets… on and on. I've heard it time and time again… parents say, "my kid would never do that" or "my kid is too smart to do that". Until they do. And when they do, it's too late. Parents need to also get off their high horse and be an actual parent. Sorry, parenting is not always convenient or easy, but it is necessary. The internet is NOT a good place for kids without close supervision… period! Stop making the internet the primary care giver for your child.
None of this addresses the predator danger that there is. Predators are just waiting for your daughter or son to logon and share their photos. Seemingly harmless to the parent… but wait… there is a school emblem in that photo? A predator can recognize that school, friend your child and pretend to be another kid. Getting them comfortable in talking to them for weeks, even months. Asking for more personalized photos. Which your child has learned will get them more likes and they will gain popularity in doing so. Or… the radicalization begins. Whatever the objective of the predator may be, social media makes it so easy.
Instituting a single account or ID for everyone is not a good solution at all. This will place even more power into the hands of the people who are benefiting from all of this already. I've seen some want it connected to a U.S. Social Security number even. To me, that screams control of the people. If everything you do, everyone does, can be seen from a single account… they can see it via your phone, they can see it via your smart car, they can see it via smart home appliances… it will all be connected. "I have nothing to hide", you might be saying. Until, you speak out against someone you shouldn't … with that kind of information the data can be used to construct whatever crime they want to. If you trust big tech or the government that much, you need to learn more about history. It's not a conspiracy… it's happened in different ways in the world's history.
I hope people think really long and hard before they support a particular stance in this area.
Thanks!
Damn right.
Sounds good. 18 and up only should fix a lot of issues.
My kids aren't allowed any social media until they're 16 and then they can only pick one platform. I'm glad I've stuck to it.
I'm a product of the late 70's-80's where there was NO social media..we were better off
I thought that all social media had a age limit at 13+ all because teachers and adults were saying that. Also, I had a device with a internet connection and my parents didn't really monitor my access since I was 12 and had social media since I was 13 with people around my age lying about their age when they are 10-12 and younger. I am nearly 23 and I wish I didn't any of this at that age until I was high school.
They can't enforce it thats for sure
As someone who grew up online, I’m in big favor of this. Absolutely
18
it needs to be 18
are we now becoming what we hate about the adults at the time when we were children?
i remember back then our parents and the media were attacking video games for being too violent(Doom,Mortal Kombat etc…), guns and violence in movies (Robocop, Terminator, predator, aliens, Batman 89 etc…) even tv cartoons ( G.I. joe, transformers, Batman TAS, He-man). They limit us from watching and playing them.
And now we as adults in the present time are limiting our children using today's technology( social media, streaming, tiktok etc…)
Those who do not know history will make them repeat.
the internet in general needs to have a age limit (other than for educational use) bc what good does it do giving a 4 year old an ipad connected to the internet? sure it may keep them distracted while you fail at your job of parenting, but you need to find something else. the amount of game matches i play with my headset you can hear that these kids are no more than 11 years old. sad world we live in…
Kids shouldn't be on the internet until they are 18 to 21 of age
I feel like 16 should be the ideal minimum, with ID requirement somehow
18 and above….