Chris Stokel-Walker

But it will also have an impact on all of us.

You will now be expected to show ID or to show your face to companies that you may not necessarily trust.

because you have to do so in order to access it, because you might also be under the age of 16.

And there was a bunch of data that was published alongside this announcement on Monday, which was both parents, the general public, and also the kids.

Turns out that the support for a ban is much smaller amongst the representative sample of the public.

But what was most interesting to me was

The kids were asked these things.

There was a really interesting chart in this Savanta survey, representative again of the kids' population, which asked

Do you think that social media, its benefits outweigh its negatives?

People said that at twice the level that they thought that it was better for friends and family than they were worried about it making them anxious or being judged by others.

But they are perhaps looking at this with a little bit more nuance than with respect and awful other parents here.

Yeah.

You do, that's true.

But...

My worry is this is part of a broader movement where we're wrapping people in cotton wool, allowing them to not ever make mistakes, to think that the world is perfect.

But unfortunately, we have to think as parents.

I mean, I'm not yet a parent, so full admission here.

So there'll be lots of people who listen to this at that point will go, right, well, your thoughts mean nothing.

And you're absolutely fine to think about that.

But I will be a parent one day.