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With more than three-quarters of children saying social media is harming their health, we asked people in Birmingham what one thing they’d change about it—and whether it does more harm than good for the younger generation.

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00:00I think with social media there's kind of, since it's been introduced,
00:07there are like net positive effects or the positive effects are just as big as the negative effects
00:12and it's easy to quickly look at the negative effects which are like the decline of mental
00:19health in young people but also educationally like social media teachers a lot of children
00:27a lot of people are things that they wouldn't necessarily learn elsewhere. Facebook, Google,
00:33they're all very useful but it depends on how they're used. I think young people abuse it by
00:40looking up all sorts of things. They're looking up games, they're looking up porn, they're looking up,
00:48it's not what it's meant for. Yes you can play a video game on there or whatever it is they do on
00:55there but they they can abuse the system.
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