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What are your views about the effects of social websites on the social problems (very commonly children accessing to the literature and things which are not suitable for them)? Aren't social problems increasing due to the increase rate of social websites?

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raised a sensible question about tailoring social sites for minors, and correctly pointed to parental involvement. The practical answer is not “build one kid-only internet” but to combine product design, regulation and active guardianship. Platforms can and should offer age-appropriate experiences, but parents and educators need easy tools and clear guidance too.

For platform designers: default all accounts for young users to the most private settings, avoid targeted advertising to children, restrict public profile fields and one-to-one messaging, provide parental-consent flows where law requires them, and invest in moderation and easy reporting. Regulatory frameworks are already relevant — see the U.S. COPPA guidance for under‑13s () and the UK’s Age‑Appropriate Design Code for practical design expectations ().

For parents and schools: start with device and account controls (Google Family Link [https://families.google.com/familylink/] and Apple Screen Time), enable SafeSearch or DNS filtering on the home network (e.g., OpenDNS tools), prefer child‑focused apps when appropriate (for example, YouTube Kids [https://www.youtubekids.com/]) and use lesson plans and review tools from resources such as Common Sense Media ([https://www.commonsensemedia.org/]) to teach online judgment.

A few cautions: strict age verification raises privacy tradeoffs, moderation at scale is imperfect, and parental controls are only effective when paired with education and open conversations. The realistic goal is a layered approach: safer default product design, enforceable policy and law, plus parental guidance and media literacy.

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But if they want to know some related to his course or news about new search or other related things then it would help him lots. So i think parent should care about it because if you will only negative then all sites can have negative point but there can also some plus point.

So i think if parent is active about his child then it can be not a big problem.

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The reason behind my question was to ask all fellows "Is there a need to design social websites according to the needs of minors?" So that parents allow them to use only those websites and ban all others it may satisfy parents as well as children will get from internet what they need

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