I’m so glad that I grew up in a world before social media.

The dumb things I did were not cataloged for the world to see and for it to be a permanent record.

That time was also very special because we lived in the moment. We didn’t waste the opportunity to stare at it through a little screen so that we could share it with the world for a ‘like’.

I don’t have any children, but I’m fascinated by the conversation about the age limit for social media.

When I was younger, I remember the same type of discussion about using the television as a babysitter.

How old does a child have to be in order to watch certain things? How old is it okay to sit in front of the Simpsons? How much TV is too much TV?

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The television rating system was the result of those discussions.

We were worried that television would ‘rot’ your brain, but with social media, mental health can be much more in danger.

With social media, we’re getting legislation proposed and put in place worldwide. But is that enough, and can it really work? People lie about their age all the time, and kids signing up for an account is no different.


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Where Congress is pushing the age of 13 as the legal age to be on social media after a Surgeon General's new advisory, a new survey by online education company Test Prep Insight showed that a majority of parents in Washington support 14 as a minimum age (read more about that here).

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