People on the street: Should smartphones be banned for kids?
With the rise of social media, there is no question that children have been exposed to things at an earlier age than previous generations, so what is to be done?
We hit the streets of Manchester to get the views of people on the street.
We hit the streets of Manchester to get the views of people on the street.
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00:00Hi, I'm Theo with Manchester World. Today, I'm out in Manchester asking people their opinions on mobile phones.
00:05Now, young people have more and more access to smartphones,
00:08and we want to know if people think that's a good thing or a bad thing, and what protections they'd like to see put in place.
00:13So many kids are just addicted, and they've got so much access to things that they shouldn't have access to.
00:17Maybe some kind of regulation on making sure, you know, under-13s aren't getting Facebook accounts and stuff.
00:24I would suggest take away their phones in general. Give them, like, Nokia bricks.
00:28I have friends who have kids, and they're, like, four years old, and they can use iPads and stuff.
00:31And, like, when I was four years old, I could definitely not use an iPad.
00:34Stuff that they're exposed to on social media, you know, all this, like, negativity and all this body image, and it's just not right.
00:43I've got an 11-year-old, and actually this really resonates with me, because he is the last one in his class to get a phone for Christmas this year.
00:50And everyone had them when they were, like, eight, and I'm trying to get that across to him.
00:53I think there's massive mental health issues around the use of smartphones and things now,
00:57and I think it needs to be talked about more.