Bill would ban under-18 user from social media

A new bill is aiming to add teenagers under the age of 18 from social media? Do you agree?

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[Fujoprincesu]

I’m 18, but I honestly think it’s a bad idea. Like?? Why is it the governments job. All of you are saying ‘I love this!’ But are the same ppl who don’t know how to moderate your own children. Again, I am 18. However, sharing my personal info just to post a selfie. 💀 sounds really stupid.

[CalebCox-wdtf]

At this point they would force kids under 18 to go to bed at 7:30 or something ridiculous. Florida is drifting off from the US

[verreal]

Protecting children is good, but requiring 2 photo i.d.'s for adults to use them means no privacy, just like in China. Hello, Big Brother.

[kennynguyen]

This bill would just never passed, be for real. I don’t think they can afford another construction on the White House, plus how about you moderate your kids rather than blaming on social media?

[kenzie-.-]

Good riddance, those under 18 bands. Maybe next politicians will work hard on which way the toilet paper goes.

[monikasturm]

So what documents would be accepted and sure they will delete that information.

[BURGERDOG]

Yes please these kids are killing themselves over social media. They're not mature enough to take on the pressure that comes along with social media 🙄

[PhilipMarcYT]

They could just fake their age to get around it. 😕

[xDebDEorDebxte]

The thing is these kids have no clue the dangers of scrolling all the time

[stephenkollenborn]

The best thing for this is a social media access card that teens adults and kids can purchase if your under 18 you have to show an id to purchase this card at any major retailer the card is free of charge but if you get an adult card you most show a photo id at the register if you get a kid or a teen card you do not have to show an id but your account will be limited since your under 18 but requring users to upolad a state id is stupid

[dark_x_wolfeditz]

i dont think its neccisary because like parents should just moderate there kids theres so reson for a law to ban them

[EveningStreets]

The "small government" types at it again.

[yamitony]

Great idea! And great for their own sake

[christhompson]

the idea is in the right place but wrong execution. The problem with the internet is accountability. you can say or post whatever you want without anyone knowing who you are. If you are under legal age you are under the responsibility of the parent. If you start holding parents financially responsible for their own kids online activities the problem will go away. dont need to target the kids at all. it's the parents job to set restrictions and monitor what they do. Parents sit back and blame the schools or authorities when its up to them.

[AnotherFatNeganClassic]

As long as they don't kill themselves eating nyquil chicken, Im all in

[lucasjames]

I'm 31 years old and I think this is a great idea.

[Yatukih_]

The bill is considered unlikely to pass because the language is too vague.

[lisanidog]

I’m a kid of the 60’s and 70’s. No such thing as having a cell phone or computer. I have an older brother. He didn’t immediately move out at 18 and he was living at home. He was done with high school and he didn’t get into college yet. He was working at a gas station pumping gas. He had to pay rent. It wasn’t a discussion and in our family once mom and dad decided something that was it. My brother had two choices. Pay rent or move out at 18. He paid rent. One day my brother decided that he was just too darn annoyed with mom standing at the bottom of the third floor steps to call him for dinner. He seemed to forget that he was allowed to sleep in the third floor bedroom instead of his own on the second opposite mine. So my parents said we’ll give you an extra line(landline). We’ll buy the phone and set it up but you’re paying rent, you’re working, you pay the phone bill. A couple of months later my brother thought he was too good to keep his promise. The phone was disconnected and taken off the wall and it never came back. My brother was furious! Mom and dad reminded him that they paid for the phone. They could’ve made him as he was working. They reminded him that he promised to pay the bill as he was working. In our house anything extra we had to earn. Good behavior, good grades, not losing interest. We screwed up that extra thing was taken. For good. Unfortunately at times my brother thought he was too good for that. In many things he was brought back to earth. He was a tad more stubborn than me. If my brother and I were kids today and there were cells and we were early teens or younger there would be NO cell phones. You don’t need one. You go to a friends home you call from there you got there safe and you call before you leave. We were also latch key kids before the term was invented. I lost my key and I got heck for it. Got my key back when the locks had to be changed and had to wear my key around my neck on a scratchy twine rope. If I ever took that key off my neck string and lost it, locks would be changed again and no more key and I would have to wait outside until mom and dad came back from work. On anything else screwed up no second chances. I was lucky I was given a second chance. If we had computers and misused them they would be unplugged and the computer wouldn’t be in the house ever again and any research it would be library time. My parents didn’t play around and knowing them had they been in the computer age they would be no different. You were given or provided the basics it was because my parents chose to. Things were never owed.

My parents unlike parents of today WERE parents. You wanted your allowance you got it when dad decided to give it. You weren’t owed. I remember I wanted a savings account at 16. Dad said what do you need with a saving ps account! I said to put my allowance in. He opened it because I was under age. He chose to. When I was working and wanted an IRA dad said great. But I had to pay half. It took months to save my grand half at the time. I had gotten three and each one I had to pay half to start. I was a big horse statue collector as a kid. Who paid for them? ME! It made getting them sweeter as I wasn’t given them I literally had to earn them and it took months as dad would go weeks until he decided to give me my allowance. Again I wasn’t owed.

My parents made it clear to my brother and I that they were our parents NOT our friends. They didn’t care if we liked them. When I was 13 and objected to house rules dad said follow me. I followed him to my room, he got my suit case and began to pack it. He said not a word. I asked him if he would’ve done this to my brother. He said yes. He kept packing and then said he’ll pay one night at a hotel and you’re on your own. I said you wouldn’t dare! I figured things to have like privileges were the only thing they put their foot down on. I didn’t realize it meant the literal roof over your head. So in essence I had a choice. You’re big enough you think that you don’t need to follow rules and grown there’s the door or I could change my mind. But at 13 I had as most teens do an attitude. I said to dad you wouldn’t dare! At that time no one kicked their kids out. He stopped packing, glared at me and said try me! It’s one thing to be ignored when I wanted my allowance, quite another to be kicked out having an attitude problem. I quickly changed my mind and dad unpacked my suitcase and it was never mentioned again.

Mom and dad did things for my brother and I with special stuff, with a roof over our heads, education, food, medical, because they wanted to. They didn’t HAVE to do anything. So if they were modern day parents you got a computer because they chose to get one. Misuse it, gone. Out of the house never to return. Smart phone they’d have said no. You don’t need one as a kid. Grousing would’ve been ignored. My parents weren’t like modern parents. They ran things not my brother and I.

Kids today think they’re owed and I’m glad that someone, since parents refuse to, are putting limits like age requirements and verification or both. Kids aren’t paying for their internet or their stupid smart phones. They shouldn’t have it if they abuse it and literally meld into it and online platforms shouldn’t be taking advantage of kids young and teen. When my brother and I needed information for a report, library! We learned to use the card catalogue. It wouldn’t hurt kids today to be cut off from online stuff go to the library only sadly libraries I’m sure are internet connected. But at least it’s not at home. And tough if young kids and teens have a problem. Tough if some parents have a problem. It’s about time kids learn they’re not owed.

Addicted to the internet I always hear. We’ll when I was a kid I was addicted to TV. So I had strict hours. During the summer I had to go to camp so I didn’t sit in front of the TV too long. And I knew if I opened my mouth to object, the TV I used in the basement would be no more. Out of the house never to return. I needed permission to watch the den TV of my parents. You got yelled at if you decided you didn’t need to do that.

It should be up to parents to make sure their kids’ self esteem was brought up and not lowered and NOT left to online people. Parents should be able to talk to their kids about anything today so the teen years are less stressful. My parents did! Our job as kids was to go to school and of course there was no such thing as school shootings. It was up to my parents to make sure homework was done and with me I had tutors as math was not my strong point. My parents worked up to the day they literally died so tutors were no problem and mom was never a stay at home. As soon as my brother and I could walk and talk off to nursery school, what you’d call child care today, all day. Nor were we rich. We were called then Middle Middle Class. Middle Class today gripe endlessly not realizing they bumped up a notch from my upbringing. My parents didn’t depend on teachers for our discipline. We screwed up in or out of school, my parents would yell at us. My parents couldn’t have cared less if my brother and I went to college which I didn’t but we WERE going to have a high school diploma. Dad was very adamant about that since his dad, born in 1899 was forced to drop out of fifth grade to work. Today kids don’t drop out of grade school to work and shouldn’t be made to. My paternal grandfather never finished any school! Not grade school, never could go to junior or high school or college, he had to work, and both grandparent sides raided a family during the Depression and without complaint.

There should be social media limits on kids today who’ve been too much dumbed down. IF social media existed when my brother and I were coming up my parents wouldn’t wait for politicians to make another limitation. They would! You screwed up, spent too much time on it, depended too much on stranger’s opinions that could screw up your self esteem which in many respects my parents weren’t the greatest in that department but at least tried, we wouldn’t have a cell or computer. Library. No we didn’t have to worry about school shootings when my brother and I were coming up in the 60’s and 70’s, we had the same bullying issues. But at least my brother and I were taught not to BE those bullies and cause trouble at school there’s be heck to pay at home.

Teachers in my day taught. Any contract disputes you never saw them. They’d do it during the summer or weekends or after the holidays. No selfish walkouts. Teachers weren’t disciplinarians. Parents were. And no we owned no guns at home. There was no such thing as homeschooling and my bother and I had to be vaccinated before we could go to school. No politicization of that. And it was made clear that if my brother and I got in trouble with the Police as we were taught better, you get into trouble with the Police you got yourself out. No bail, no lawyers, don’t even bother to call, no visitation. We never messed with the law.

Kids don’t like this possible limits on the internet I say tough! They’re hardly paying for it. If parents have a problem with it, maybe they should get their snoots out of their Smart Phones and care! Parents today want too much to be friends than parents. If my parents were those of today and there were limits put on the internet they wouldn’t have cared because there would already be restricted use. If we messed up and had internet, it would be disconnected. My bother and I learned early that nothing was owed. Challenge it it wouldn’t be pretty and we would’ve lost.

I whole heartedly agree with ban for kids under 18. You’re NOT owed. Having grown up with that, kids today should be taught that and tough if they don’t like it.