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Hold a Parliamentary debate on Social Media Abuse

Closed 154 signatures

What the petition asks

Social media abuse, including cyberbulling, trolling, sexting and grooming, are negatively affecting thousands of teenagers' lives on a daily basis, culminating in self harm, alcoholism, mental illness and suicide. We wish for the companies responsible to take additional steps to police their sites.
The NSPCC, along with Barnados, have a huge amount of data highlighting the serious issues teenagers are dealing with when becoming victims of social media abuse. Not enough safeguards are deployed within these sites to deal with the amount of abuse aimed at our children which leave parents in total despair. The level of abuse affects our children in many ways with poor exam results, disengagement within society, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and in some cases self harm and suicide.

Timeline

23 Aug 2016 Petition opened for signatures
23 Feb 2017 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 154
Status Closed
Opened 23 Aug 2016
Closed 23 Feb 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.