Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.

  • portuga@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The problem is not teens accessing social media, they’re just bored or don’t know any better

    The problem is what adults post on those social media.

    If anything teens should have social media of their own, where no elder boomers are allowed

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      17 hours ago

      There was a German social network a few years ago that did exactly that (before Facebook was available in German)

      They had SchülerVZ for kids/teens, then they had StudiVZ for university students and finally they had MeinVZ for adults. The problem was, that they weren’t interconnected at all apart from the option to move your account to the next platform. So if you were just starting to study but you still had friends that were in school, you could’t keep in touch with them.