Should under-16s be banned from social networking sites?3 reading minutes

Social networks play an important role in the lives of teenagers. Faced with the risks of addiction and exposure to extreme content, the question of an age limit for accessing platforms is becoming increasingly important.

Essayist, author of L'Homme démantelé

Yes. Few concepts have been so misnamed: «social networks» have become oxymorons. They drive people apart, and make social interaction less frequent and intense. Among the generation that experienced the advent of the digital world at the dawn of the 2010s, 60% of young Swiss feel alone sometimes or often, and a third of them experience psychological problems (Swiss Federal Statistical Office). And the more unhappy young people feel, the more they lock themselves away in digital entertainment to better