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Rejected petition Age limit social media (Facebook etc) to over 16s.

To many children are either being bullied or using social media to bully someone. We need to help prevent this. Children don't have the understanding and how this behaviour can affect others and themselves.

More details

Here are some stats:
https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-cyber-bullying

http://nobullying.com/cyber-bullying-statistics-2014/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2441239/1-5-young-people-suffer-extreme-cyber-bullying-day-Facebook-accounting-half.html

http://m.kidshealth.org/en/parents/cyberbullying.html

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

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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