People on the street: Social Media

National World - LocalTV

With so much misinformation online and OFCOM threatening punishments for social media companies that fail to control misinformation, we hit the streets of Manchester to ask if they think they’d be better or worse off if they’d had access to social media at a young age.

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00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people about social media.

00:04We're going to ask people today how they think they would have reacted as a child to misinformation on social media.

00:09Would they have had the tools to be able to avoid it, to know where to find the correct information,

00:14or could they potentially have fallen victim to it?

00:17That's what we want to know, so let's see what you say.

00:19I acknowledge that there's always been misinformation going around.

00:22There's always been, for every sort of ten influential and positive influences, there's always one negative.

00:27So I've always been a bit wary, even when I started getting social media.

00:31I think there are lots of positives to social media.

00:34I think it helps kids to find their tribe, which was tougher in my day than I think it is now.

00:43But there's a downside as well, which is that you can lose yourself online.

00:50I think a bit of both, really. It depends on the person.

00:53I'm glad I didn't have it.

00:54Yeah, I'm glad I didn't have it, really.

00:56It's tough for young people now, isn't it? Life's hard for them now with this social media.

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