Going to the park, meeting up with friends, bike-riding, having picnics and swimming - teenagers' summer to-do lists are looking awfully retro.

At least, that's the thinking six weeks out from the federal government's much-discussed social media ban for children under 16.

Leo Blair, 13, plans to leave his phone at home, play football and hang out with his mates.

Abbey Nuttall, 12, thinks she'll go for walks and spend time with her friends in the park.

Will Driscoll reckons he'll play a lot of basketball and go to the movies, while Callum Ernst will visit his grandparents.

The way they talk about it, you'd think there had been something stopping them from doing all these things until now.

All of them agree that being without their phones will be liberating - to a point.

Teenagers,

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