Children must be 13 to create social media accounts but a Change.org petition calls for the Australian government to raise the minimum age to 16.
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00:11 Wish I was being dramatic, but the numbers are horrible and you've got social media affecting
00:16 the mental health of one in two kids, so 50% of kids.
00:19 It is having a devastating impact on the mental health of too many of our young Australians.
00:25 Most content made for social media isn't really made for safety in mind, it's made so that
00:30 people can make money or can get popular.
00:32 It's the way everyone runs all of their entire social lives, so like, if you don't have Instagram
00:37 you don't get invited to anything.
00:38 But there's also other things that like, you can't control seeing and sometimes that can
00:44 be incredibly damaging to people's mental health.
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