Parent of a Year 7 kid here (that's the first year of high school and a very common age at which all kids have phones). The social media ban has been a wild su

Parent of a Year 7 kid here (that's the first year of high school and a very common age at which all kids have phones). The social media ban has been a wild success in preventing 11-year-olds having their social connections locked into the major social media platforms. Prior to the ban, if you weren't on insta you weren't connected. Now my kid talks to other kids on the phone or sends SMS, but also doesn't really stay in constant contact with their peers outside of school hours, they do their own thing or organise socialising themselves. It's been hugely positive for interrupting the hostile social media companies from hijacking kids' social connections for the purpose of addictive algorithms to drive ad revenue. From what I hear, once social media use is embedded in the older teenagers, they are all working around the ban very easily. The social media companies have made no real effort to enforce the ban or comply at anything more than a minimum level, and I wouldn't expect them to as they have absolutely no concept of social licence. It's beautiful to see civil society take back one little bit of freedom from psychopathic oligarchs.