Social media/smartphone bans for under 16’s

[Hobbit]

Our village FB group is excellent, lots of handy information gets posted, then there’s the weekly “there’s a horse loose on Barlow Road again!”

We get that sort of thing + “have you seen the price of Branston Pickle?” It’s €6.15 here, £2.20 in the U.K. As for the price of Piccalilli…

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Our village FB group is excellent, lots of handy information gets posted, then there’s the weekly “there’s a horse loose on Barlow Road again!”

We have an estate one, very genteel and useful for information, giving away furniture etc. The town one is horrible, full of nastiness. I look at that simply for local information, the rest is skirted over.

The kids one is an interesting one. So much of life is online now. I think not allowing them in schools is a good step, see how that works. If it is not enough then maybe we follow Australia. I'm sure an awful lot of countries will be watching what happens in Australia very carefully.

 

[Tashyboy]

Another thing that’s the norm for parents now.
Just been to ASDA and the traffic is horrendous with large queues. Why. Because Asda built a McDonald’s that uses the same entrance and it is backing up. When I got the other side of McDonald’s I could see every car has school kids in it.

 

[sunshine]

I don't do Tik-Tok, X, BlueSky. I have an Instagram account but don't post...only follow a few and only occasionally read. Have Facebook account but rarely post and only occasionally read. Other than being in a couple of golf scheduling WhatsApp groups and a bit of reading and posting on Digital Spy this place is pretty much it for me.

Life doesn't have to have SM at the centre of an individual's universe - it's a choice - a choice about what's actually important or relevant to their life (what I use WhatsApp for) and what is just reading and posting stuff for FOMO.

My Mrs will hear my phone ping and won't stop hassling me to look and see why until I do. I'm much more relaxed about having a look...there's nothing I get on SM that needs my IMMEDIATE attention. But that's not good enough for my Mrs. Irritating.

And I find it sad seeing a mum or dad head down on their phone while pushing their small child along and not interacting at all with them. I'm pretty sure that when ours were little and in push chairs we'd chat with them as we went along.

Why are you posting a detailled breakdown of your social media usage? Are you under 16?

Or do you just love sharing everything with the rest of the world?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Why are you posting a detailled breakdown of your social media usage? Are you under 16?

Or do you just love sharing everything with the rest of the world?

Post was a response to @Pinseekers…which was a generality and not specific to under 16s. But I’m pretty sure that you knew that