Jess Kelly

But the difference is I, as an adult, know that I can walk away and I know when to walk away.

A younger person who is met with the infinite scroll doesn't.

And that is, you know, the fundamental design of TikTok in particular is of concern here.

It's the same with Instagram Reels.

Now, as we mentioned on the show a few weeks ago, Google introduced a new feature that parents can enable to limit the amount of time young people can spend with YouTube Shorts, which is a step in the right direction.

Again, though, that just highlights to me that there are technological solutions here.

There are off switches.

for these platforms that can be enabled.

So whether it's a lack of will or want or whatever, there is more that the tech companies can do and hopefully they do it because I would hate to think of a whole generation just being banned, outright banned.

And as I alluded to there as well,

in Australia, that approach hasn't worked because kids are congregating elsewhere.

But as I said, I'd love to hear your thoughts, techtalk at newstalk.com.

Right, when we come back here on Newstalk, GOMO is entering the fibre market, but is it as good as it seems?

Welcome back to Tech Talk.

This is Jess Kelly with you here on News Talk.

As ever, if you have any questions for me, you can send them over to techtalk at newstalk.com.

Before the break, we were chatting with Alex Cooney of CyberSafe Kids about online safety.

And I forgot to mention.

that parents can listen back to our series called Behind the Screens, which is a four part podcast that looks at the issue of keeping kids safe online.

If you just search for Tech Talk, you'll find that mini series in the feed.