Look, I get the impulse. Social media can be a cesspool, and nobody wants their kid exposed to that. But banning it for everyone under 16 is like burning down the house because you don't like the carpet. It's lazy policy. The real issue isn't the platform—it's that we've collectively decided to hand kids smartphones at 10 and then act shocked when they don't know how to navigate them. Banning social media just pushes the problem down the road. They'll still get on it eventually, but now without any practice managing it under a parent's guidance. And let's be real—you can't actually enforce this. Kids will use burner accounts, lie about their age, or just migrate to unregulated apps. So you end up with a ban that sounds good on paper but does nothing except make teens better at hiding stuff from adults. Teach them to swim instead of draining the pool.

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