{"id":18152,"date":"2025-12-09T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18152"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:36:43","slug":"why-social-media-ban-for-australias-under-16s-may-isolate-teens-during-summer-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18152","title":{"rendered":"Why social media ban for Australia\u2019s under-16s may isolate teens during summer holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/12\/08\/97280802-6dd6-4d0f-a549-3e2cc080f8cf_35be729a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sydney teenager Ayris Tolson believes the start of her first summer holiday under Australia\u2019s youth social media ban will be relatively easy as she spends time with family, but as the weeks drift by, she fears being alone and isolated.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">From December 10, Australia will impose a world-first social media ban on under-16s, blocking them from <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">TikTok<\/span>, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">YouTube<\/span> and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Instagram<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">More than 1 million <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">under-16s will lose their accounts<\/span> and, nine days later, break for the long December-to-January holidays when most of Australia shuts down until February.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cYou\u2019re basically isolated for about six weeks during the school holidays,\u201d says Ayris, 15. \u201cAs it continues on, I will probably feel more attached to social media. It\u2019s not such a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mental health experts say a roll-out right before the longest school holiday of the year may worsen the shock for teenagers who rely on the technology for socialisation and will not have the grounding routines or institutional supports of school.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The cold turkey effect of no school and no socials will be especially pronounced for children in remote locations or minority groups like migrants and <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">LGBTQ people<\/span>, who lean more on the internet for connection with like-minded people, the experts say.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3335583\/why-social-media-ban-australias-under-16s-may-isolate-teens-during-summer-holiday?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney teenager Ayris Tolson believes the start of her first summer holiday under Australia\u2019s youth social media ban will be relatively easy as she spends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12247,6011,4314,12249,20,811,847,1467,12248],"class_list":["post-18152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-australias","tag-ban","tag-holiday","tag-isolate","tag-media","tag-social","tag-summer","tag-teens","tag-under16s","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}