{"id":537971,"date":"2026-03-13T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537971\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:55:12","slug":"teenagers-on-social-media-before-ban-are-still-using-it-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537971\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers on social media before ban are still using it, data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three months into Australia\u2019s world-first teen social media ban, new data suggests that young Australians\u2019 use of social media has only dropped modestly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat all saw a decrease in use by Australians aged 10-15, the majority of teens who had been using the social media platforms pre-ban remained on the services afterwards. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s according to a new snapshot of data provided to Crikey by parental monitoring company Qustodio. This adds to early evidence suggesting that there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2025\/12\/11\/teen-social-media-ban-workaround-teenagers-under-16-fun\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widespread circumvention of the government\u2019s flagship tech policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three months into Australia\u2019s world-first teen social media ban, new data suggests that young Australians\u2019 use of social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2324,2331,43,1202,1333,44,1314,105,127043,3069,101,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-537971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-culture","tag-headlines","tag-instagram","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-teen-social-media-ban","tag-teenagers","tag-tiktok","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}