Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Reservoir High School social media round table

Nathan LAMBERT (Preston) (13:09): I rise to thank students and staff at Reservoir High for organising a recent social media round table with the Premier. Students raised a number of concerns about social media, including the ways in which it can facilitate bullying, predatory behaviour, social and peer pressures, abuse through anonymous messages and exposure to problematic content, and the issues of distraction and excessive scrolling. There was a very thoughtful discussion in the room about the way in which younger users could be restricted from some of the riskier aspects of social media, including creating public accounts, messaging strangers and anonymous users, accessing explicit material, and scrolling passively for long periods of time. I would like to thank Charlotte, Rick, Makayla, Indi, Jennifer, Mackenzie, Rosie, Aiden and Leonard for their thoughtful contributions. I know the Premier took them on board.