Report Stop children using smartphones until they are 13, says French report

[tom_mai78101]

Children should not be allowed to use smartphones until they are 13 and should be banned from accessing conventional social media such as TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat until they are 18, according to a report by experts commissioned by Emmanuel Macron.

The French president had asked scientists and experts to suggest screen use guidelines for children with a view to France taking unprecedented steps on limiting their exposure. It was unclear how the government might now proceed after the report’s publication. Macron said in January: “There might be bans, there might be restrictions.”

The hard-hitting report said children needed to be protected from the tech industry’s profit-driven “strategy of capturing children’s attention, using all forms of cognitive bias to shut children away on their screens, control them, re-engage them and monetise them”.

Children were becoming “merchandise” in this new tech market, the report said, adding: “We want [the industry] to know we’ve seen what they’re doing and we won’t let them get away with it.”

Stop children using smartphones until they are 13, says French report

Children should be banned from most social media until 18 amid attempts to ‘monetise’ them, says Macron-commissioned study

www.theguardian.com

If I had a child in the future, I will be damn sure not to hand a smartphone to them until they are grown up.

 

[The Helper]

I let my girls have smartphones in there junior high years but that was back in the day. I never did a bunch policing of what my kiddos did on the internet because I knew they were smart and if they wanted to see something they could get passed it. They turned out OK. Of course that was back in the day and who knows what they are doing nowadays to attact kids. I found though, I did not have to manage my kids and the Internet like that. I had no filters growing up.

 

[tom_mai78101]

I let my girls have smartphones in there junior high years but that was back in the day. I never did a bunch policing of what my kiddos did on the internet because I knew they were smart and if they wanted to see something they could get passed it. They turned out OK. Of course that was back in the day and who knows what they are doing nowadays to attact kids. I found though, I did not have to manage my kids and the Internet like that. I had no filters growing up.

Did you notice any behavioral problems? MMO games and social media on the phones are the only things that didn't exist back then.

 

[The Helper]

I have not seen any problems like that. My kids seem pretty good. My youngest daughter did say she was too young to be on omegle so I am sure they stumbled across stuff but I do not know. I know they are alot less messed up then me LOL!