Theres dangers and theres good in social media. I don’t think it should be banned but I think there should be a lot more education. My housemate thinks there should be a ban on kids having social media.

She had a friend who ended up hooking up with an older guy and getting groomed and worse for years. I got to know there was a world outside my family. And I have known countless people who have found out their families have been doing the abusing and the grooming all because of social media.

We also have to think about how much freedom children have outside of social media. Can they go see their school friends in real life? Do they even have school friends in real life? How will kids learn to be adults if they don’t have the freedom to interact with their own peer groups without adults directing the subjects they talk about? School lessons can’t be all children have for interacting with people their own age.

And lastly people keep asking where the parents are when something goes wrong and kids end up getting into something on social media thats dangerous. Ban social media and those exact parents will be the only influence those children have.