How old until you "hand off" control of kid's social media accounts?

[Anonymous]

I know one mother still tweets and posts instagram photos of her 9th grader daughter. And I know another who curates her 10th grade daughter's instagram. I get monitoring the social media accounts -- until 16 or so? -- but a 40-something adult literally posting from them when the kid is now 14 or 15 y/o? Seems a bit much.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know anyone who does that. If my kid is old enough to have a social media account, they are old enough to control it themselves.

Mine both asked me to stop posting any photos of them by late elementary school from my account so I did. It was more that everything I said and did was embarrassing at that point. But it was a good age to stop posting photos of my kids online for all to see.

[Anonymous]

OP, c’mon! You know no one really does that! Why post as if that’s “a thing” —??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, c’mon! You know no one really does that! Why post as if that’s “a thing” —??

Parents creating and having password/account access to tween's accounts is hardly abnormal. At what age should such control stop is the question.