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At the end of the day, it’s up to parents to enforce rules around social media and devices.

Stop blaming social media and take the phone off your kids

If your teenager is raging out of control because you haven’t enforced strong enough boundaries around devices, maybe it’s time to stop blaming social media and look in the mirror.

  • Nicole Jameson

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Evicted from social media, but many children will find darker corners of the internet.

We’ve turned kids into outlaws. It won’t work, but we can still make social media safer for them

Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has serious concerns about the laws passed on Friday, but, she explains, we can use privacy legislation to make the internet better for young people.

  • Carly Kind
Defectors from Elon Musk’s X are taking up with Bluesky.

Off with the pixies: Musk’s X defectors discover their utopia

Millions of former tweeters have taken their spotless minds and ridden, on a butterfly’s wings, to an alternative reality: Bluesky, the microblogging site for progressive idealists.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
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Australians send and receive 8.1 billion emails a day. Most of them are a waste of time

Australia ranks tenth in the world when it comes to how many emails we produce, with 8.1 billion circulated every day. And it’s a big blind spot for us.

  • Tim Duggan
It was once a central part of Perth public life. But now, Nic Hayes is breaking up with his X.

Once I felt love, connection, excitement … but it’s time to break up with my X

I’ve gone from ‘Tweet Ups’ where we’d meet at a cafe to explore this exciting media frontier, to a terrifying digital wasteland straight out of Mad Max.

  • Nic Hayes
Billions of people are now enslaved by the addictive, self-gratifying systems so cleverly structured by their manipulators-in-chief.

Perth family’s trauma shows how social media has polluted our society

Financial crime, sexual exploitation, mental abuse, narcissism, intimidation and misinformation is flooding these platforms, and we need to make it stop now.

  • Gary Adshead
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Raising age restrictions on social media would help some Australian teenagers with comparison culture and the normalisation of filters.

Without a filter, I saw my face and cried. This is the reality for teens on social media

In high school, I covered my mirror with paper to avoid seeing my own reflection. The only time I looked at myself was with a beauty filter applied.

  • Lucia Frazzetto
For many Aussie parents this horse has already bolted, because kids as young as 10 already have accounts on the sly.

A social media ban for under-16s won’t work. Here’s what will

Calls have been growing louder for age limits to be raised from 13 to 16. To add to the momentum, some say a ban is the only way to protect our kids. But is it?

  • Nicole Jameson
WA Premier Roger Cook, federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, nuclear power. Picture: WAtoday

As it happened: WA news on Wednesday, May 22

Only got a little time between commitments? We’ve collected the day’s headlines here for you to catch up in a flash. 

  • Holly Thompson
Provis writes that placing age restrictions on social media is something she supports, after witnessing the effects of being online in her students.

I don’t let my Perth students have phones at school. It’s time others followed

While our premier has joined other states’ calls for an enforced age limit on social media – a welcomed announcement – there is no doubt society has left it quite late.

  • Belinda Provis

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/digital-hygiene-1mta