Submitted on Friday 4th March 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 8th March 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Stop under 16s from using social media sites Facebook, Instagram & Snapchat.
They are at risk of bullying, peer pressure to conform to social expectations and are at a huge safeguarding risk due to choices they are making due to social media pressures! They are too young to understand the implications that social media has on their lives and their futures!
Children posting inappropriate pictures online, posting inappropriate messages about themselves and others! Causing themselves and others to self harm, to have emotional/mental health issues! It's crazy what our children are doing to themselves and each other!!! As their mothers, fathers, relatives, friends, teachers, guardians-it's our responsibility to stop this from happening! We need to put a stop to social media websites and protect our under 16s until they can make informed choices safely.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Age policies are the responsibility of social media sites.
If you would like Parliament to change the law, to make it illegal to offer social media accounts to those under 16, then you could start a petition asking for that.
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