In my opinion no kid should have access towards any form of social media until the age of 16-18.
It’s literally cooking their brains, you have kids of age 4 being handed iPads and getting addicted to coco melon.

You have internet creeps /weirdos stalking little girls on SM and grooming them. they groom to on Roblox

You have boys having their minds brainwash/ influenced by all this bullshit they see, no doubt they are being introduced to all the depravity that happens on ig reels , twitter/ Facebook/tiktok.

We have to understand that at a young age, our brains are really malleable, all this influencer s*** with idiotic , ignorant perspectives on life will lead these kids towards their downfall.

This s*** really needs to be taking seriously, or there will be great repercussions down the line with the next generation of children in the age of modern age of the internet.

At 16 it's too early still IMO

imagine how angry the conservatives would be about the lost freedoms

anyways my sister is a 1st grade teacher and had to ban the phrase diddy party from her classroom

coco melon is training babies into gambling mechanics

man I'm so happy now that I was poor when I was kid and didn't had access early to the internet

all comes down to money imo
if two parents could rock part time jobs and actually have time/energy to be parents then I think a lot of this would self correct in a generation or two

I agree with the idea that kids shouldn't be on the internet at a young age but how would we even control this? All a kid would need to do is lie about their date of birth when creating an account

uhhhhhh

it’s one of those things it’s either all or nothing imo that makes it tough

if you have half of the population that age not using it because they were withheld from it, but the other half had parents that didn’t care, it’s creates the whole dilemma of your kids turning on you due to “lost” social life

I feel like this isn't the answer lol

I had internet access by the time I was like 8 years old, but I was taught common sense on how to use it and were also given strict time limits as to when I was able to use it

Like most problems we're seeing in America's youth, parents need to parent more

Its again people trying to shift the blame off of how parents are parenting.

The answer to all of these questions is just "active parents".

Exactly, teaching moderation, safety etc

raising a 13-18 year old kid scares me though

you realllllly gotta be on ya s*** as a parent

imagine you had no access to internet until your an adult and you first go on the internet all the adults talk about is kendrick vs drake

This is a bandaid fix to deep core issues in modern society, particularly American though

Dying public education at all levels but especially K-12— worsening intelligence and critical thinking, little to no planning for future, less enthusiasm for previously coveted jobs like doctor, astronaut, etc. — dumber kids doing dumb stuff on social media, easily influenced by passing trends or echo chambers

Wage slavery — extremely overworked populace with not enough of a safety net and cash inflow to support a family with ease but must work — parents overworked and incapable of being active in their kids’ lives — kids doing whatever tf they want on social media

Among other factors that all contribute to our youth not being ready to deal with today’s problems

Banning social media will do very little imo

if anything i think there just needs to be more actually enforced moderation. most apps have kid censored versions but whats the point when you can literally just lie to bypass it lol. there needs to be a verification process of some sort.

thats just with social media though…like you said i grew up seeing all types of f***ed up things on the regular internet. at its core, you just gotta have a good head on your shoulders, and that’s on the parents.

Generation is cooked

No social media and all kids are left to talk about school and family gossip and s*** they seen on TV/Netflix/Theaters. Not a bad idea

So glad I’m not a kid

Tbh idk

I wouldn’t be nearly as far in my life if I wasn’t able to use social media as a child so idk if I’d feel fair just banning it for kids

But I do think kids are way less monitored now even compared to the 2010s, when i was growing up i didnt even have access to the internet 4 days out the week

I think a lot of the solution to our problem is people need to start being better parents bc banning kids from social media is not realistic. When I have kids they can use the internet but only until a certain time in the day and I will make them read and have other hobbies still and definitely monitor their internet use when they’re young

People don’t realize the biggest problem with kids is that most kids have trash parents and thats every generation

Literally most people I hear describe their parents had bad parents but that’s obviously a difficult discussion to have

lots of different definitions of good parents too

some people think giving child lots of choice and option and freedom is best and good parenting

others think some level of monitoring (not full on helicopter, a couple steps before that) is healthiest

s***s crazy. no one size fits all for any of it

Yeah that too but there’s a large demographic of people who think being a good parent is never talking to your kid like a person and beating the s*** out of them when they do something wrong

CommieToThe strikes again