Young Children and Social Media

[Dr. Elizabeth Daniels] As you might expect, accessing social media at younger ages tends to be problematic. Younger kids have fewer cognitive capacities to critically evaluate media. So getting on social media when you’re younger is not a great idea. And when I say younger, that’s also a little bit squishy because you may have a child who is a little bit more mature at a given age than another child. But we can sort of pinpoint about under 12 or 13 as being too young.