Children under Age 15 ban from the use of Social Media

[Taricoins]

I could remember getting addicted to porn at young age, it affected me to adulthood to the extent I can't stay for some hours without going to the porn site. I struggle before I could stop and emagine I didn't have that courage then my childhood addiction would have hunt me to this adulthood. I would have said that government shouldn't have baned them because of some reason but I guess that is the only solution. But my fearis that are this kid not going to used their parent or elder siblings phone to access the internet?

That's the problem because there are a lot of things children would be addicted to if they allowed them on the social media, purn is one of the common things social media would lure them to do and that's why some places you would be seeing 14 years old girl pregnant when they are supposed to be in high school, so actually in every decision that would help us as a parents who wouldn't want our children to go astray we would always give our support because is a development that would assist everybody so that they wouldn't be in a situation of fighting out any addiction and wrong behaviors from their children because of social media.

I thinking getting addicted to p*rn is the easy one, engaging in social media at a very young age is very detrimental to children upbringing. One thing about parenting is, I'd you don't do it, social media will take them, teach them abd pass out those Ideology of doing things without repercussions. Substance abuse is another effect because seeing contents where it feels like taking drugs or drinking at an early age is the trend, one might think it's cool to do it until it becomes an addiction

[Yeesha]

You can teach your children to learn about Bitcoin and crypto, and also let them understand the essence of privacy, while the random use of social media should be discouraged because the uncensored content they will come across on social media is not suitable for their age.

This is happening in France, and if we could recall how there have been increasing crime rates being traced to crypto-related attacks and kidnappings in diverse attempts, France is taking advanced steps to ensure that the citizens are safe from the assault of the public exposures that is made through what they do online unknowingly to them; it could be an entry point for an attack.

Children below the age of 15 are now banned from using social media in France; this is to avoid further exposure that leads to vulnerability to what the opened to, and this access has been restricted to children who unknowingly reveal some information or are exposed to certain things online.

As children are growing up they need to be corrected if they did anything wrong. I won't say that social media is bad. Because it has advantages and disadvantages, and it can easily impact young children negatively. Social media is full of rumours monger, misinformation, and other things that could mislead a child. Social media is the best place to have beneficial knowledge and experience concerning certain things. Those countries must have their reasons for that sudden restrictions. Under 15 children are still young and need proper guidance, so parents must be extra careful about how they handle their lives and cases.

[Kavelj22]

As children are growing up they need to be corrected if they did anything wrong. I won't say that social media is bad. Because it has advantages and disadvantages, and it can easily impact young children negatively. Social media is full of rumours monger, misinformation, and other things that could mislead a child. Social media is the best place to have beneficial knowledge and experience concerning certain things. Those countries must have their reasons for that sudden restrictions. Under 15 children are still young and need proper guidance, so parents must be extra careful about how they handle their lives and cases.

Parents are just one part of the process to protect children from unwanted online content. It is a collective mission with many collaborators like schools and civil society, with the partnership of the most important collaborator, the state. This decision in France that we are about to discuss looks so impressive but in my opinion it will solve nothing and can be considered as a run away from real responsabilities:
- Children at the age of 15 and under know very well how to bypass the ban and how to use social media anonymously. So why not apply a set rules to control the platforms themselves about what they allow to publish in their interfaces.
- Why not applying the same restrictions for sites showing pornographic content? Children shouln't be allowed to watch other types of content that is displayed everywhere not just in social media. Example reality shows in TV.
- Whom to blame if a children being caught using social media? The social media platforms or his parents? Or the government itself for not being seriously responsible?

[Prince patrick]

This is a very good decision, at 15 I think they should be studying and building their brain to be creative and industrious. Now social media has made lot of kids lose focus in reading, they just want to scroll through tiktok and consume any content they come across. This has been a big pandemic. Every country should adopt this law, it will help our younger generations, kids are watching adult content such as pornography and the rest.  And at such age, it destroys your mind and makes you lose focus in class.

[Abdulzuruku01]

You can teach your children to learn about Bitcoin and crypto, and also let them understand the essence of privacy, while the random use of social media should be discouraged because the uncensored content they will come across on social media is not suitable for their age.

This is happening in France, and if we could recall how there have been increasing crime rates being traced to crypto-related attacks and kidnappings in diverse attempts, France is taking advanced steps to ensure that the citizens are safe from the assault of the public exposures that is made through what they do online unknowingly to them; it could be an entry point for an attack.

Children below the age of 15 are now banned from using social media in France; this is to avoid further exposure that leads to vulnerability to what the opened to, and this access has been restricted to children who unknowingly reveal some information or are exposed to certain things online.

As children are growing up they need to be corrected if they did anything wrong. I won't say that social media is bad. Because it has advantages and disadvantages, and it can easily impact young children negatively. Social media is full of rumours monger, misinformation, and other things that could mislead a child. Social media is the best place to have beneficial knowledge and experience concerning certain things. Those countries must have their reasons for that sudden restrictions. Under 15 children are still young and need proper guidance, so parents must be extra careful about how they handle their lives and cases.

It's a welcome idea, this is commendable for any government that wishes to see their country develop. They need to work on the youths. Once the teenagers know how to differentiate between good and bad, society will be free from thuggery and bad things like cultism that social media teaches them as a way of life. At least an 18year old already knows what to do and who to take as a friend. Honestly this is also a welcome development that needs to be adopted worldwide.

[7juju]

You can teach your children to learn about Bitcoin and crypto, and also let them understand the essence of privacy,

Life shouldn't be about Bitcoin! Bitcoin! Bitcoin!

Social media contains positive resources and negative resources, but as a child, they choose to watch the negative ones that aren't helping them learn.

I wont stop speaking on the disadvantages of social media app monetization because children these days prefer to scroll on TIKTOK rather than using the educational materials share their. When I was growing up, one of my favorite TV channels was Discovery and documentaries. Learnt a lot about animals and the science of the world, but at present time, children prefer to watch other irrelevant things, including censored and adult content.

This is really a big concern for the future generation. The effects might not been felt now, but in two to three decades from now, the society will be in shambles, because of the negative effects of TikTok. I’m saying this because of what these kids are doing with TikTok. They don’t want to do any other work. They all want to become a social media personality. They are chasing the soft life. They don’t  want to till the soil and work on the farm.

They can’t cook, they don’t want to learn any Other trade. They’re not interested in going to school again. All their lives are now centered on TikTok. If there is one social media I will recommend they shut down is the TikTok. I hate that app with passion. That app is ruining our kids, and it hurts me that people that are already seeing the dangers this poses to our society, are not doing anything to prevent it from happening. If I had my way, I don’t care the amount of good TikTok will do to the society or economy, I will shut it down, because of the danger it poses to our society.

[icebar]

It's a welcome idea, this is commendable for any government that wishes to see their country develop. They need to work on the youths. Once the teenagers know how to differentiate between good and bad, society will be free from thuggery and bad things like cultism that social media teaches them as a way of life. At least an 18year old already knows what to do and who to take as a friend. Honestly this is also a welcome development that needs to be adopted worldwide.

I do not know how effective such steps of the government are, but it is certain that the governments of the country that think about the welfare of their people must be aware of that. They also plan how to move forward in the development of the country. The youth of that country plays a big role in the development of a country. That is, if the youth can be managed properly, then of course that country will be much more economically prosperous. And to take the youth to that level, they must be given the opportunity to grow up properly from an early age.

Children who are underage do not understand their own good and bad, which is why they become so addicted to social media from that time and it is difficult to bring them back to a good track later. Governments may not be able to completely stop the use of social media by their children by imposing such bans, but such steps will definitely bring benefits to the country in the long run.

[Mr Reporter]

I thinking getting addicted to p*rn is the easy one, engaging in social media at a very young age is very detrimental to children upbringing. One thing about parenting is, I'd you don't do it, social media will take them, teach them abd pass out those Ideology of doing things without repercussions. Substance abuse is another effect because seeing contents where it feels like taking drugs or drinking at an early age is the trend, one might think it's cool to do it until it becomes an addiction

I think for a fact am going to say you are right about p-rn addiction which is very easy to fall into traps with just a click away and they could see free, anonymous s-xy body here and there…well that's a side for social media addiction for kids is even more dangerous because it shapes who they think they are and very bad for a little child…and just as you have said it if a parents stop their roles as a parent then society and social media would do there very best to teach the child…maybe it's because most parents are not used to technology life back then so for that parents need to teach their children values of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. And the boring part of the drama is that social media doesn’t teach consequences…

[Thewatchman]

This is actually a good review from the government if put in to order it help the new generation have the ability to relate with their natural environments instead of focusing on the cell phone being on the internet 24hrs without any control can basically destroy the growth of the child.

Children under the age of 15 is still in his early age of life and the use of social media with the negative effects and impact it might have on the child is dangerous to the society at large, the negative impact might be so concerning and it always advisable children under the age of 15 stay off it to avoid the implications it can cause to the child.

This is a good measure taken to restrict and restore incorruptible behavior among children of such age endangering immortality and other vices that may arise in future. Basically restricting protects the future of the children.

[laspol65]

This social media buzz is best kept away from children, not only about Bitcoin but also about many other things they share in a way that you cannot blame them for. So to protect privacy, one must avoid social media, where various children will not think twice about spreading secret information.
And keeping children away from social media can benefit not only from this privacy issue but also from all other issues. Children are ruining their eyes by watching these social media videos and their brand is being damaged greatly. And to protect themselves from other harmful things, it is definitely better to keep these children away from this social media buzz.

[changaa]

This is a very good decision, at 15 I think they should be studying and building their brain to be creative and industrious. Now social media has made lot of kids lose focus in reading, they just want to scroll through tiktok and consume any content they come across. This has been a big pandemic. Every country should adopt this law, it will help our younger generations, kids are watching adult content such as pornography and the rest.  And at such age, it destroys your mind and makes you lose focus in class.

what worries me most is that today's kids don't want to develop these skills, they no longer invest much in their future, i don't want to be a boomer, but they seem increasingly lazy, they don't have goals, is not right to generalize but the majority are like that, and i don't think they will change things very easily.

[Sexylizzy2813]

what worries me most is that today's kids don't want to develop these skills, they no longer invest much in their future, i don't want to be a boomer, but they seem increasingly lazy, they don't have goals, is not right to generalize but the majority are like that, and i don't think they will change things very easily.

Do you blame the children of this generation? Is not their fault in any way, a child can come into this world and start learning from the sets of persons who call themselves his or her parents so they can't give what they don't have, the parents are the first teacher to them before going to school so the way a parent trains up his or her child that is how the child will grow and those things that are being thought to the child are what he will start displaying but whereby the parents always give the child things to have fun with than teaching the child the main purpose of settling in this world then we don't have to blame the child but the parents. Social media is no longer safe for any child below 10 no to talk of 15 so anything you see your child doing without you having any idea of it then you have to act faster than you think.

[Soldroplet]

[Edited Out]

Do you blame the children of this generation? Is not their fault in any way, a child can come into this world and start learning from the sets of persons who call themselves his or her parents so they can't give what they don't have, the parents are the first teacher to them before going to school so the way a parent trains up his or her child that is how the child will grow and those things that are being thought to the child are what he will start displaying but whereby the parents always give the child things to have fun with than teaching the child the main purpose of settling in this world then we don't have to blame the child but the parents. Social media is no longer safe for any child below 10 no to talk of 15 so anything you see your child doing without you having any idea of it then you have to act faster than you think.

The role of family, environment and parents behind a child's behavior is very deep. In most cases, a child gets the nature of his mother, the things that the mother is doing, the things that the child is encouraging, because the father is not always around or maybe he is away on business or job. As a child sees how the parents are always using money and technology, he often assumes them as normal. For example, if the parents are always busy with their phones, then when the child is told not to use the phone, that education will not be very effective. On the other hand, if the parents show the habit of saving, responsible spending, patience and long-term thinking, the child can learn these things naturally from childhood.
The most valuable thing for me is not just giving the child pleasure. Slowly preparing him for real life responsibility, respect and decision-making ability. Similarly, in the case of social media, it is important not only to ban, but also to teach him how to safely talk to or stay safe with personal information or strangers online. If we do not tell children about something, they tend to be more inclined towards that subject, so we should teach them well about good and bad things, which will bring good for them and which will be bad for them. In the end, besides worrying about the child, we need to watch our own behavior, because the child's first and most lasting teacher is the parent.

[Franctoshi]

This is a very good decision, at 15 I think they should be studying and building their brain to be creative and industrious. Now social media has made lot of kids lose focus in reading, they just want to scroll through tiktok and consume any content they come across. This has been a big pandemic. Every country should adopt this law, it will help our younger generations, kids are watching adult content such as pornography and the rest.  And at such age, it destroys your mind and makes you lose focus in class.

what worries me most is that today's kids don't want to develop these skills, they no longer invest much in their future, i don't want to be a boomer, but they seem increasingly lazy, they don't have goals, is not right to generalize but the majority are like that, and i don't think they will change things very easily.

Social media comes with a lot of stuff, both the good and the bad ones, however, it depends on what the parents allows their children to consume, because as parents and guidiance we have a lot of work to do as regards to properly guiding our kids during their teenage stage. It's a good decision that children aged 15 and below are restricted from social media. Social media is good and bad depending on the content you allow your kids to consume. I guess there's a setting that kind of allows or limits the kind of content one consumes based on their age.

[Floczy]

This is a very good decision, at 15 I think they should be studying and building their brain to be creative and industrious. Now social media has made lot of kids lose focus in reading, they just want to scroll through tiktok and consume any content they come across. This has been a big pandemic. Every country should adopt this law, it will help our younger generations, kids are watching adult content such as pornography and the rest.  And at such age, it destroys your mind and makes you lose focus in class.

Children up to age 15 should be allowed to have mobile devices for communication. In that case, social media should be removed from the mobile device. Children are tempted to stay online for many hours doing nothing because of a steady internet connection. Most parents allow their children to make use of the devices at home for security reasons. Especially when the parents are not around. It is easier to pass messages to children with a mobile device. If the children don't have any device, it won't be possible to communicate with them far away.

I know how hard it is to look after children at home. What do they do when you are not watching as a parent? I feel the answer to the social media challenge is to restrict the category of apps they have on their phones.

[LTU_btc]

Maybe some of you heard today's news that EU is moving towards ban of social media for children under 13 years:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/eu-social-media-ban-under-13s
Meanwhile children between 13 and 15 years will be allowed to make restricted accounts with parents permission.
IMO, it's needed thing, but from the other hand, to implement such restrictions these companies will have to collect lot of user data as they will have to do some kind of KYC.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Meanwhile children between 13 and 15 years will be allowed to make restricted accounts with parents permission.

I think this is much more realistic than just banning social media completely for kid. Social media isn't all bad stuff, it can still be useful for kids if used the right way.

One interesting bit in this new law, instead of regulators having to prove the platform's harmful, platform gotta prove their product's safe for minor themselves. But this is only a proposal for now.

Another update on this topic for anyone who doesn't know. France's Constitutional Council rejected this ban, which means the ban isn't in effect. Their reason was that the idea of the ban was way too broad.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260814-france-s-constitutional-authority-strikes-down-social-media-ban-for-under-15s

[Sexylizzy2813]

[Edited Out]

Do you blame the children of this generation? Is not their fault in any way, a child can come into this world and start learning from the sets of persons who call themselves his or her parents so they can't give what they don't have, the parents are the first teacher to them before going to school so the way a parent trains up his or her child that is how the child will grow and those things that are being thought to the child are what he will start displaying but whereby the parents always give the child things to have fun with than teaching the child the main purpose of settling in this world then we don't have to blame the child but the parents. Social media is no longer safe for any child below 10 no to talk of 15 so anything you see your child doing without you having any idea of it then you have to act faster than you think.

The role of family, environment and parents behind a child's behavior is very deep. In most cases, a child gets the nature of his mother, the things that the mother is doing, the things that the child is encouraging, because the father is not always around or maybe he is away on business or job. As a child sees how the parents are always using money and technology, he often assumes them as normal. For example, if the parents are always busy with their phones, then when the child is told not to use the phone, that education will not be very effective. On the other hand, if the parents show the habit of saving, responsible spending, patience and long-term thinking, the child can learn these things naturally from childhood.
The most valuable thing for me is not just giving the child pleasure. Slowly preparing him for real life responsibility, respect and decision-making ability. Similarly, in the case of social media, it is important not only to ban, but also to teach him how to safely talk to or stay safe with personal information or strangers online. If we do not tell children about something, they tend to be more inclined towards that subject, so we should teach them well about good and bad things, which will bring good for them and which will be bad for them. In the end, besides worrying about the child, we need to watch our own behavior, because the child's first and most lasting teacher is the parent.

You are right but at the same time we shouldn't always push the father off the up bringing of their child, if the father is always said to be away it means the responsibility of the child is majorly on the mother, we should not always see it that way. Both the father and the mother should be around always by any means possible, the pressure shouldn't be on one person because training a child alone as a father or mother has never been easy. All these things about good up bringing is left for the parents to start with and ones it happens that way I don't think the child will deviate from how he's being brought up, it sounds easy, yes and it can be easy if the father and the mother are always checking up on them not by handing them things that they know would change the way they think over night.
I completely agree with you on your 2nd paragraph, if you make them too comfortable they feel like everything is alright and they use that opportunity to over do which will lead them to doing crazy stuff and see it as a normal thing to always continue. Some of what change the way children behave is what they see the parents do, they try to practice it on their own free time when they're alone, just like drinking and smoking, they watch and learn without the parents knowing what's happening until they start noticing such behavior, well it will be better to pin your eyes on the kids before it's too late.

[bakasabo]

Meanwhile children between 13 and 15 years will be allowed to make restricted accounts with parents permission.

I think this is much more realistic than just banning social media completely for kid. Social media isn't all bad stuff, it can still be useful for kids if used the right way.

One interesting bit in this new law, instead of regulators having to prove the platform's harmful, platform gotta prove their product's safe for minor themselves. But this is only a proposal for now.

That is a good proposal. Similar to that already is done partly. There is YouTube and there is YouTube Kids. Two different apps that provide same content, but YouTube Kids has more restriction of what content is shown. If there were children version of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, that would really be great. I think it is not hard to create such versions or make "really working" restrictions of content with help of AI. If previously proper content moderation was the problem, AI should solve that issue and also it should be a cheaper solution.

[Solodoski]

I think what France has done is a good thing, because social media has a lot of positives and negative content and these set of children that has been banned from using it are minors and don't really know how to handle negative contents. Most people are influenced by what they see on the internet,  so imagine children that can handle it and how it cam impact their lives. These contents are not censored on some social media and children having access to it might really affect them, so I think it's a very good one by France government and I think other nations should learn from them and do the same too.