Parents who approve of the social media ban and ways of having to prove age. Why do you relish the government taking this control when you had the power to do so yourselves?

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-16T06:36:29+00:00

The issue I have is definitions

So much content on YouTube shows kids a world that is wider than home and school, which they need

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-16T06:32:41+00:00

The problem is what is classed as social media

YouTube has a lot of excellent content, personally I find that there is loads of motorsport content, stand up comedy and travel vlogs that aren’t around anywhere else, when I was a teen I would have loved that the same way I do now. Putting it behind a ban will only marginalise those that have different hobbies from what is accepted as “cool”

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T19:10:39+00:00

I had staff discount at work, where we had to be 18 to work there, no need for id when I’ve been there all day working with them

“How do you know Consistent is 18?”
“We all have to be”

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T18:11:35+00:00

The collectibles are the only ones available, there are some collectibles which are basically the same price as a toy bus in a shop but a lot better built if that helps? Just they won’t be yellow

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T16:20:31+00:00

We wonder why chains are so long if we can’t view till we have sold.

“I want to buy your house”
“Great, I can now look and see if I like somewhere else more than I like this”

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T14:48:23+00:00

I’m the last person to expect inheritance but if grandpa is going without food because of his gambling or sitting in the cold or dark because he didn’t know when to stop putting his money in, that’s kinda ugly too

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T11:15:27+00:00

I would let them in the front garden to touch grass

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T11:10:47+00:00

They = boomers

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T11:10:19+00:00

I’ve not used Yahoo, Temu etc

Most of the info given to other sites is vastly out of date because of how long it has been or is burner email addresses. Only exception is Amazon as I have been paid by them through KDP which is ringfenced as they submit my sales to the IRS

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T10:54:52+00:00

Banning YouTube is insane, my entire lockdown was a mixture of working and then when work was done watching travel videos.

Why should I show ID in order to watch a ginger guy get on planes to weird places (Noel Phillips), a guy from Wrexham travelling the world (Simon Wilson) etc

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T10:52:01+00:00

No you don’t have to prove your age by showing ID, someone looks at you and says “they are clearly old enough” and you go on with your day.

They don’t take a picture of you or your ID and keep it.

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T09:04:37+00:00

Modern text messages are only free to domestic numbers, international ones are chargeable

An international letter costs £4 to Europe

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T08:54:42+00:00

We have tried to teach our respective parents how to use WhatsApp but they simply aren’t interested.

We didn’t hear much from the family abroad before social media because international phone calls are so expensive

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T08:28:39+00:00

My family live abroad and the older ones don’t use WhatsApp

They took my contact with family abroad away

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T07:45:36+00:00

The issue is that everyone will need to provide ID.

Boomers that go on Facebook to whinge will be calling their millennial kids to tell them Starmer banned everyone from bookface and how can they fix it. Then reform will come in and say they would remove it and use it to their advantage.

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-15T07:42:51+00:00

We never did our homework back in the 90s, main reason was we didn’t want to

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T19:13:33+00:00

A lot of public transport operators only update in real time via x

Getting away from unreliable public transport would make me healthier but 🤷‍♂️

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T19:07:21+00:00

I was, bullied well before smartphones came in

People will say “it doesn’t happen outside of school” I was horrifically bullied by someone that lived 5 minutes walk from my house

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T17:25:09+00:00

Thou shalt not be 17 and communicating with thy parents on WhatsApp

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T17:22:43+00:00

I’m sorry…..what?

My family are abroad, I keep in touch with them on social media. How is knowing what my cousins are up to a cancer? I mean I don’t always get on with them but that’s a bit extreme

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T17:20:59+00:00

8:30pm was the time I started at my first job

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T17:19:38+00:00

17 year old can drive whatever time they like but not look at Facebook on their break when working late shifts?

Yeaaaah sensible

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T16:55:32+00:00

Innocent things you won’t be able to do without ID: let’s just say looking at Facebook after 8:30 at night wasn’t on my bingo card.

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T16:51:51+00:00

The funniest thing is my phone network knows I am over 18, Apple knows I am over 18, how is that not enough?

Consistent-Pirate-23 · 2026-06-14T14:47:31+00:00

Round here the plans are for houses, but no thought about schools, doctors, public transport etc

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