A warning has been sounded over the deep and worrying influence that social media is having on children as they start at secondary school.
Despite the fact that many social media channels have a minimum age limit of 13, an investigation by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England, has highlighted the fact that three-quarters of children aged 10 to 12 now have social media accounts.
The report – Life in Likes – focuses on social media use among eight to 12-year-olds and warns that children are hitting a “cliff edge” when they start secondary school.
This is because in year 7 their social circles begin to expand dramatically and their use of social media changes “significantly”.
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