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.
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