{"id":91920,"date":"2026-07-15T19:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91920"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:35:18","slug":"midnight-social-media-curfew-proposed-for-uk-teens-aged-16-and-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/15\/midnight-social-media-curfew-proposed-for-uk-teens-aged-16-and-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight social media curfew proposed for UK teens aged 16 and 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1800\/cpsprodpb\/5875\/live\/cd666860-806c-11f1-bee8-53ce494e1abc.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage girl looks at her phone at nigh ttime in low lighting with the glow of a lamp in the background. The light from the phone lights her face\" width=\"671\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Older teenagers in the UK will face an overnight social media curfew, the government has announced \u2013 though they will be able to opt out of it by changing their account settings.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c982857nlrlo\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Older teenagers in the UK will face an overnight social media curfew, the government has announced \u2013 though they will be able&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/phone-curfew.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91922,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91920\/revisions\/91922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}