Hayley Caronia

So that's one easy way to bypass this.

Then other kids are using their parents or older siblings

faces for facial recognition.

So if they are setting up an account and then they say, hey, big sister who's 18, let me use your face to be able to log in for this.

That's one way to get around it.

Then a lot of these kids are starting new accounts with fake birthdays because I guess there's when you sign up for a social media platform, it just asks you what your birthday is.

It doesn't ask for proof.

So kids are just doing that.

They are using VPNs to bypass the ban saying that they're in another country.

I got a VPN, ExpressVPN to be exact, promo code scroll.

And I did that because I thought when the TikTok ban was gonna go into effect, I would just say that I was in Canada or wherever wasn't gonna ban TikTok.

didn't end up having to do that.

But again, this is what kids in Australia are doing.

Some girls are just using filters to age their faces or they're putting makeup on to look older for those facial recognition.

They're buying adult-looking mesh face masks on T-Mail.

So they are going on, you know, these budget sites and they're getting...

masks that look older and they're getting into these social media sites in some cases kids are even using pictures of their dog to verify their identity because some of the technology on these social media platforms isn't built to recognize dogs faces so that's another way that they're getting around it it's just totally ridiculous and it is undeniable that social media has negative impacts on people

Undeniable.

I'm addicted to my phone.

It's bad.