Should kids be kept off social media? Leeds locals reflect on online safety

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Is the internet a safe place for kids today? Do you agree with setting limits on their use of social media or should they be kept off social media completely?

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00:00It depends what type of social media it is, depending if it's like TikTok or YouTube.

00:06Do you think it's safe or not? Yes.

00:10Yeah I think it's desperately unsafe. As a father it's shocking and I think they need to

00:18introduce legislation to make it much much safer. We put limits on the children's time ourselves

00:25and even then it's really easy for them to bypass it on their technology their phones and so much more

00:32needs to be done. I think there should be some limits. Certain topics, dark topics should be banned I think.

00:41I think social media can be an open platform for bullying these days as well. It should definitely

00:46be monitored and I think Facebook has an age limit but especially for my daughter as well you know it

00:52opens a world up to bullying and harassment as well and it's something that you should be really careful of.

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