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Music At this time next week, teenagers in Australia will be living in a new reality.

I don't even know what I'm going to do.

Like, I don't even know what the point of having a phone is anymore then.

Starting on December 10th, which is just around the start of Australian summer break,

a new law called the online safety amendment takes effect. And when it does, no one under the age of

16 will be legally permitted to have an account on any of the most popular social media platforms.

That includes Facebook, Instagram, Kik, Reddit, Snapchat, threads, TikTok, Twitch, X, and YouTube.

So nearly all of them.

Companies that violate the law will be fined in the tens of millions.

This is not one of those vague protect the kids' laws that everyone can pretty much ignore.

Officials in Australia have been negotiating with social media companies for the better part of a year,

hearing out their excuses and pushing right through them.

Australia is serious, And young Australians are

just realizing what's about to hit them. My name's Catherine. I'm 15. I'm in a year 9.

Catherine, we're using her first name because she's a minor, made her first social media account

when she was 10 or 11. Snapchat is her favorite. I wake up, I message my friends, ask what they're doing today, making plans and stuff like that, just keeping in contact with them.

And like a lot of Australian teens, Catherine is dreading this change.

I don't really care about like the videos and stuff. I just want to be able to communicate with my friends and without that, I feel like I can't.

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