"Kids Don’t Need Phones" - 64% of Americans Say NO to Teens on Social Media
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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A shocking new poll reveals that 64% of Americans want to ban social media for kids under 16, citing the dangers of phones and online exposure. Experts warn that giving kids early access to social media and cell phones can harm their self-esteem, brain development, and social skills.
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| 0:00.0 | 64% of Americans support banning teenagers from social media. |
| 0:04.0 | This is a new poll that just came out. |
| 0:06.1 | A Fox News poll reveals that about two-thirds of Americans and parents back the idea of banning |
| 0:10.8 | teenagers under age of 16 from social media and removing cell phone from K-12, K-12 classroom. |
| 0:16.6 | A new poll shed light on the grown concern among American voters and parents regarding the |
| 0:21.4 | impact of social media and cell phone usage on children. The survey which involved interviewing |
| 0:25.6 | 1001 registered voters founded 64% of participants, favored banning social media for children |
| 0:31.0 | under the age of 16, while 35% opposed the measure. Interestingly, the number remains consistent |
| 0:36.0 | amongst parents, 64% supporting |
| 0:38.5 | the ban, 36% opposing it. |
| 0:40.7 | The poll results are highlighted a partisan divide on the issue with 73% of Republicans backing |
| 0:46.7 | the social media ban compared to 56% of Democrats banning it. |
| 0:51.2 | So Democrats wanted to be open, Republicans wanted to be banned. This suggests that while there's broad support for protecting children from potential dangers of social media, Republicans are more likely to advocate for stricter regulations. In addition to the social media ban, the survey asks participants about their views on banning cell phones in K through 12, a stagnant 69% support the idea |
| 1:13.3 | while 31% don't. |
| 1:14.5 | Why the hell would you want cell phones in a classroom anyways? |
| 1:17.6 | Brandon, your thoughts on this? |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah, I can't think of a single upside to somebody who's under the age of 16 having access |
| 1:23.5 | to social media. |
| 1:24.6 | It's only like, what, maybe a 10-year sample size of of... How old were you when he got a cell phone? Junior in high school, so it was like 2011, and it was those, it wasn't the cool cell phone. It was like, I mean, because iPhones were still expensive at that time. Yeah, so it was like those flip phones, like the... Nextel. The first one I had was like that walkie-talking next the nextel yeah the best they're pretty cool but so that's an entirely different world though than what we have right now because you couldn't even really search online with those phones like i i do think it's a good thing for kids of any age to have like a basic phone that can make phone calls if they have to get in touch with their parents or something but no i i don't think there's a single positive um argument you can make for them having access to social media under that. And we have what, like a 10-year sample size of this experiment of giving kids access to that for the last 10 years. So, yeah, no, I think something good to get ahead of because we're seeing the results of it now. Yeah. And I think, by the way, what was the percentage, Homberto? It was 64. Guess what the other? |
| 2:18.9 | The other 36% doesn't want it. |
| 2:21.6 | You know why? |
| 2:22.0 | Because that's a digital pacifier to the kids. |
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