Singapore has to act to regulate social media use for adolescents: Ong Ye Kung

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the aspects of social media that pose harm to adolescents are features such as algorithmic feeds, videos that play automatically, and direct messaging by adults to young users.

such feeds and video playback could encourage addictive behaviour and excessive screen time, while direct messaging potentially exposes adolescents to cyber-bullying, predators, or inappropriate content from strangers.

“Banning is a blunt tool. For adolescents, after all, they do use social media to maintain friendship, keep in touch with friends, and use it for education. So it’s not all bad, it is actually a lot of good

Qn: 'We should not be afraid of social media.’ Do you agree? (RI 2023 Yr5 CT)