London: How old should you be to use WhatsApp?

We ask Londoners how old people should be to use WhastApp, after the platform lowered the age of use from sixteen to thirteen years old.

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00:00 What's up, so they've just lowered the age from 16 to 13

00:02 I don't like don't like what's up myself and I'm an adult and I need to use it for work and stuff like that

00:12 Yeah, I think it's a little bit too young a little bit conscious. I've got a kid as well

00:17 So yeah, I think I'd be a little bit conscious about that being a little bit too young

00:20 But I know the the battle of like kids also having it now and stuff like that

00:25 It depends if the question is how old should people be before they start using?

00:28 What's that then I think probably 16 or maybe 15 is a good age. I think 13 is young only because I mean

00:35 Obviously to just send messages to friends and family. It's quite harmless

00:38 But because of the wider kind of larger groups, which I didn't really even know about I can see why that would be a concern

00:45 in terms of using a smartphone

00:48 I think probably from the age of about 12 is about the right age for a child to be able to use a smartphone

00:53 But you just wouldn't want them to access

00:56 everything that can be accessed via a smartphone.