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Why the social media ban is about so much more than social media
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"Everyone's upset mum - loads of them have got their own YouTube channels.
Key facts
- SEO expert Mehwish Malik from Link Builder says the younger end of Gen Z (aged 14-29) use TikTok as a search engine: their preferred gateway to information and to trusted brands
- Exactly how a bunch of 12-year olds might have ended up with their own channels in the first place when the minimum age is supposed to be 13 shows how big a change in culture the government is trying
- YouTube is where we all go to learn," says Dr Tom Crawford, aka Tom Rocks Maths, who shares maths skills with his 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, which is included in the ban
- That was their 12-year-old son's summary of how the news about the social media ban for UK under-16s went down in his classroom
Summary
That was their 12-year-old son's summary of how the news about the social media ban for UK under-16s went down in his classroom. Exactly how a bunch of 12-year olds might have ended up with their own channels in the first place when the minimum age is supposed to be 13 shows how big a change in culture the government is trying to make. In Preston, school pupil Isabella went viral when a BBC colleague asked her on-camera what she would do instead with the nine hours of screentime she had racked up over the previous weekend: "stare at the wall," she deadpanned. The exact logistics of the ban have yet to be set out but it is possible that its introduction will herald the biggest ever change in the UK in terms of how everyone, children and adults alike, accesses the internet.