UAE social media ban for children under 15: A personal defense of growing up offline
By
Evelyn Lau
Summary
The UAE has announced a social media ban for children under 15, restricting access to platforms like TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. The author, who grew up in the pre-internet era of the late 1980s, argues that children can thrive without social media, drawing on personal experience to support the new regulation. The article is a first-person opinion piece defending the ban and reassuring concerned parents that a childhood without social media is not only possible but potentially beneficial.
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· 3 pulledChildren under the age of 15 in the UAE will soon need to find alternative ways to entertain themselves.
For anyone devastated by the news, I bring a message of hope.
I was born in the late 1980s, meaning I not only spent my childhood in an era before social media existed, but also before the internet was even a thing.
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