Should Australia raise the social media minimum age to 16?
As a national campaign calls for the Australian government to lift the age teenagers can use social media from 13 to 16 years old, we ask regional Australians what they think. Video by Madilyn McKinley.
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00:00With the rise of social media comes the question, should we be raising the minimum social media age from 13 to 16 years old?
00:08We asked 10 regional Australians what they thought about it.
00:11Yeah, I think it's really fluent.
00:13Just keeps, you know, turns out better things to do, play in the park or, you know, stuff like that.
00:20I feel like, not necessarily, I feel like certain apps, definitely, but if you're using like Snapchat just trying to talk to your friends,
00:27I don't see a whole problem with the 13 age limit.
00:31It should be having friends when they're older and on social media older, not young age.
00:36I agree with phones for contact with their parents and friends and family.
00:41But in terms of like cyber attacks and that, that just leads into a whole bad stuff.
00:50Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
00:51Yeah, social media is definitely not for kids. I have two kids of my own and I just feel safer of them being even on YouTube.
00:58So I think they should do it because you don't know who's on there.
01:02They don't know what you could, you don't know what they could do to you.
01:05And it's just not like really safe to be on with other people that you don't know.
01:10I don't. Yes, I agree with you. I'm not going there.
01:14It feels like there's a lot of traps for young ones out there.
01:17So if they raise that age, it's a lot better. So they do it for themselves.
01:21They're on the fence with it because it depends. It depends with the apps and everything.
01:25Like they can change the way people are influenced on certain things.
01:29So it depends on how they're raised and everything and who they're surrounded by kind of makes it a bit difficult.
01:36I think at the moment, social media is a bit harder for people to navigate safely.
01:41And I think it's definitely something that should be explored in the sense of it's consistently growing.