Rowan Jacobson

That's a huge question because when you look at it, it's only been just over six months.

So to make any total evaluation of it, I think we'll need a little bit longer in time.

We do get this question from the UK all the time.

How is it going?

What's happening?

There are stats flying around that seven in 10 young people are still on these social media platforms and they're still accessing it either through VPNs or other methods online.

Speaking to people, though, it's been mixed.

My godmother and cousin over in Sydney has spoken quite openly with me about how incredible it has been for her 13-year-old and her 10-year-old, how they'd stopped asking for social media.

Yes.

I mean, those few months before the ban came in in December, there was definitely a lot of outspoken young people speaking about how they were going to not only lose access to their favorite apps, the media they consume, but also at the exact same time, access to conversate with their friends.

They were afraid that the communication they had with their friends after they went home

Which back in the day, I would have used MSN the second I got home.

BRB, TTFN and all that sort of stuff.

That was one of the biggest kind of fears of them was not being able to communicate with their friendship groups.

There are other ways that they can do that since it has come in.

Yes, Facebook is blocked, but Messenger isn't.

WhatsApp isn't one of the apps that is blocked.

So there is still ways for young people to communicate in that way.

It's all over the place, isn't it?

Yeah, I grew up in Australia originally and then moved to Wicklow and Dublin in Ireland and then moved back to Australia a number of years ago.