I actually like Australia’s new legislation. I don’t have social media and regardless that it makes me really feel like I’m overlooked of a whole lot of issues, I’m grateful that my mother and father don’t enable me to have it. I see my different pals hooked on the cellphone and social media and all through the years, I’ve realized that they’re lacking out on so much that’s happening within the outdoors world …
I believe that Australia’s new legislation goes to be very efficient and I believe that after the youngsters get the chance to have social media, they are going to be hesitant or understand that they’re lacking out on much more essential occasions. Quite a lot of my pals who’ve graduated from highschool have began to delete some social media and so they’ve informed me that individuals aren’t utilizing it as a lot. Possibly social media is only a factor that’s largely standard inside the age group of 13-16, so Australia is attempting to cease the social media dependancy and make it in order that individuals are extra current and received’t find yourself having social media in any respect, even once they get to the age of legally with the ability to have it.
— Rita, Fountain Valley Excessive College
However others, even when they thought the legislation was a good suggestion, doubted it could be efficient.
I imagine Australia’s legislation, on paper, is a good suggestion. However I don’t imagine will probably be efficient. Expertise has given younger minds infinite entry to the world, there’ll at all times be a approach for a teen to easily lie about their age and over time new social media will proceed to floor. Typically this may go away the legislation irrelevant and ineffective. Social media has had an awesome destructive impact on many individuals, however many teenage minds have change into reliant on social media and might merely work across the legislation in an effort to discover social media.
— Baylee, CA
I don’t suppose banning all children beneath sixteen from social media is the reply. Take some households in China, for instance — mother and father might be so strict they confiscate telephones. However right here’s the kicker: the stricter the mother and father, the extra these children flip into tech ninjas, plotting like secret brokers to sneak a peek. Some even go full drama mode — stealing cash simply to purchase a cellphone or hitting up web cafes like they’re on an intelligence mission. As a substitute of an outright ban, perhaps we should always let teenagers use their telephones carefully — with some steering.
— Amy, China
And a few argued it was the fallacious approach to deal with the actual issues that social media poses.
I believe Australia’s new legislation has the fitting concept, however is simply too strict and easily the fallacious approach to deal with the ever rising social media points. By passing this legislation, Australia is proscribing kids from worthwhile media shops that preserve them up-to-date on information, what their pals are as much as, and collaborative conversations with these all over the world, like a good friend or tutor. Whereas I imagine that media is harming the way in which younger individuals suppose and understand the world, I believe this might have been dealt with otherwise. For example, a governmental system that filters the media that enters the nation may very well be carried out in an effort to defend the younger minds of youngsters, whereas nonetheless giving them entry to all of the information they need to pursue.
— Michael, Nevada Union Excessive College
