What our young people think of the impending social media ban

With the impending social media for under 16s, what will this summer look like for our kids?

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00:00Hanging out with friends a lot more.

00:07Yeah, I think we'll be seeing friends a lot more than we would.

00:11Doing activities with your friends.

00:14I think everything, especially in Canberra, there's not much to do.

00:18Everything that you could do, like escape rooms and arcades and that,

00:21will definitely be much busier.

00:23It'll definitely be a bit different.

00:27I'll be a lot more active I reckon, like hanging out with friends a bit more outdoors.

00:33Just stop harmful content reaching us and just like, I guess cyber bullying and stuff.

00:45Yeah.

00:46But I feel like they don't need to do a ban, they should just do more proportion to

00:52going straight to the ban because they haven't even tried to do anything.

00:56Yeah.

00:57Yeah.

00:58I feel like banning Snapchat and YouTube.

01:01For Snapchat, I talk to my friends every morning and afternoon.

01:05And whenever it's the weekend, I usually talk to them on that.

01:11Make plans and stuff like that.

01:13And for YouTube, I can sometimes use it for studying.

01:17Maybe a couple months.

01:19Couple months.

01:20I don't think too long.

01:21Really?

01:22Because definitely people are going to somehow find a way.

01:25People are going to find their ways around it.

01:27Like through VPNs.

01:28Or like if it uses face recognition, you could just use like a fake person.

01:33It matters on how they implement it and how they enforce it.

01:36Yeah.

01:37I reckon there's a chance so it'll be over, but there's definitely going to be a lot of people

01:40trying to find a way around it pretty quickly.

01:42Yeah.

01:43So it just depends really how hard they work and how hard the government work towards it.

01:47Yeah.

01:48All right.

01:49You're going to be right there.

01:50You are right.

01:52So, great.

02:12You getaways.