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How useful is a proposed social media age restriction?

The Social Media Overuse

It is now considered certain that social media can have negative effects on the well-being of young users, but there are different opinions about which measures could help. Credit: Georgijevic/Getty Images

Canberra wants to get teenagers away from smartphones and out into nature. That is why there should be a minimum age for using social media. How this can be controlled is still unclear.



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