Kids on BeReal Are Exposed to Sexual Content More Often Than Other Social Networks, Survey Finds
Parents surveyed say social media use is basically ubiquitous among kids. 97% of the parents surveyed, who all had children under the age of 18, said their kids use social media. A majority, 60%, said their children use social media every multiple time per day. Responding parents also said 1 in 3 children were exposed to social media online before the age of five years old, despite most platforms setting minimum sign-up age requirements at 13.
Children who used social media the most frequently were also more likely to come across sexually explicit content, the group found. Kids with disabilities and others identifying as LGBTQ were also significantly more likely to receive sexually explicit requests, according to the survey.The survey shows young users on tech platforms are still regularly coming in contact with adult strangers despite years of pushback on the issue from parent groups.
“On Roblox, there were grown men trying to talk to my daughter. Ask when she was alone,” Delila Gonzalez, a mother who participated in the survey said. “I was reading the messages between the two and knew it was a grown man because he would call my daughter ‘my little dove’. So now none of my daughters are allowed on that game and we do regular monthly phone checks.”Parents responding to the survey were unified in their support for change.
requiring social media companies to verify users’ ages, obtain parental consent, and most notably set a curfew banning users under the age of 18 from using social media apps between 10:30 PM and 6:30 AM. Legal experts warn some of the Utah law’s provisions, which sound eerily similar to authoritarian measures in China, are guaranteed to face aRegardless of how those two cases play out, online child privacy protections are no longer a question of if, but rather, when and how.
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