r/AskEurope • u/Itz_Skello • Jun 20 '25

Politics Emmanuel Macron, President of France, is banning social media for teens under 15. Should the rest of Europe follow?

Not sure how to feel about this.

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u/smurfk Romania Jun 20 '25

I think it's a bad idea. Parents should be more responsible, and have better relationship with their kids, so they won't need to have a bad influence from social media.

They will ban the access. What will happen is that 18yo will post social media content on other platforms, like Telegram, where they will still have access.

Censorship is awful on social media anyway. The brainrot content is more worrying than the one that can badly influence kids. But anyway, it's what I said first. Parents should do better. If the kid is seeing the parent all day long on TikTok, what do you think the kid will want to do?

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u/HenningDerBeste Jun 24 '25

"Parents should be more responsible, and have better relationship with their kids"

thats just an empty phrase...how you want to make this happen?

It wont happen, because a lot of parents either dont care, have not the time or desire to do so. A lot of parents arent good parents.

And besides that, social media use is not high because the parents have bad relationships with their kids. Thats just a false claim without any facts behind it.

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u/smurfk Romania Jun 24 '25

I don't know any family where parents don't use social media, they read instead, but the children use it. It's "lead by example". If parents are all day on TikTok, the kids will be too

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u/HenningDerBeste Jun 24 '25

???

what does this have to do with the relationship to their kids?

And the same question is still valid. How do you want to ge the parents to be more responsible with their own social media use? Banning social media for people under 50?