group of online safety advocates have banded together to call on the government to lift the social media age limit to 16 years old in New Zealand.
“It’s a group of tech and business leaders, researchers, parenting educators and parents who have real concern with what’s happening with our young people online,” explained Holly Brooker, online safety advocate.
It's a group of tech and business leaders, researchers, parenting educators and parents who have real concern with what's happening with our young people online.
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The survey, which nib conducts annually with global research company, One Picture, canvassed the views of 1,226 parents, step-parents and guardians of children under 18, nationally. This year the survey shows technology use continues to nag at parents, with the real impacts on health and wellbeing increasingly evident. Technology use remains the number one worry for 70% of parents, with 24% ‘extremely concerned’.
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