Mr. Noah O'Shea:

To cut it short, it is not the right decision. It is like someone telling their child that they cannot have any sweets - it just makes them want the sweets even more. By making it a ban, we are then making social media not have to care about young people on the platform. If they do, it turns into a kind of black market that they go on the platform. It is not safe for them. It is even more harmful. There are all the positives of social media from connectivity, educating, developing, gaining a sense of responsibility through social media, such as things as simple as WhatsApp and Snapchat. In my personal experience, my sister organises to meet up with her friends on the weekends and stuff. That develops a sense of responsibility that she can establish as she is growing up. Without that, we would take away a platform for young people to develop into young adults.