When your kid's friends make a follow request

[Anonymous]

Do you accept when your teenage DC's friends make a follow request on instagram or similar? Seems harmless since teens seem to request everything under the sun, but I'm curious about how you dcum parents handle it. Please no knee-jerk feisty responses. Looking for discussion if anyone is interested.

[Anonymous]

I am not on instagram, but I have family who are. There is no way I would violate my kid's privacy by sharing a feed with their friends.

[Anonymous]

Yes-that way I can also follow them. The more adult eyes monitoring social media the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes-that way I can also follow them. The more adult eyes monitoring social media the better.

I think you can follow someone who doesn't follow you. My kid follows lots of professional athletes. They don't follow him.

[Anonymous]

No. I am involved in a sport and that is against our SafeSport rules, so I figure it’s probably a good rule to follow in life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-that way I can also follow them. The more adult eyes monitoring social media the better.

I think you can follow someone who doesn't follow you. My kid follows lots of professional athletes. They don't follow him.

You are betraying your age and your ignorance. Professional athlete’s profiles are public, that’s why you can follow them. Most people’s profiles are private, and they have to accept you. No, parent allows their child to have a public profile. That would be a recipe for disaster.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-that way I can also follow them. The more adult eyes monitoring social media the better.

I think you can follow someone who doesn't follow you. My kid follows lots of professional athletes. They don't follow him.

You are betraying your age and your ignorance. Professional athlete’s profiles are public, that’s why you can follow them. Most people’s profiles are private, and they have to accept you. No, parent allows their child to have a public profile. That would be a recipe for disaster.

But they can accept you without you accepting them right? And you accepting them doesn't mean they have to accept you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you accept when your teenage DC's friends make a follow request on instagram or similar? Seems harmless since teens seem to request everything under the sun, but I'm curious about how you dcum parents handle it. Please no knee-jerk feisty responses. Looking for discussion if anyone is interested.

Yes, those are their "for-parents" accounts. They create them and hide their main ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes-that way I can also follow them. The more adult eyes monitoring social media the better.

I think you can follow someone who doesn't follow you. My kid follows lots of professional athletes. They don't follow him.

You are betraying your age and your ignorance. Professional athlete’s profiles are public, that’s why you can follow them. Most people’s profiles are private, and they have to accept you. No, parent allows their child to have a public profile. That would be a recipe for disaster.

But they can accept you without you accepting them right? And you accepting them doesn't mean they have to accept you?

Sure but that requires YOU asking THEM. Isn’t this thread about the opposite? What parent asks to follow their kid’s friends’ social media? That’s weird AF.

[Anonymous]

No, I would not be friends on social media with my child's friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you accept when your teenage DC's friends make a follow request on instagram or similar? Seems harmless since teens seem to request everything under the sun, but I'm curious about how you dcum parents handle it. Please no knee-jerk feisty responses. Looking for discussion if anyone is interested.

Yes, those are their "for-parents" accounts. They create them and hide their main ones.

Oh that's probably right. Interesting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-that way I can also follow them. The more adult eyes monitoring social media the better.

I think you can follow someone who doesn't follow you. My kid follows lots of professional athletes. They don't follow him.

You are betraying your age and your ignorance. Professional athlete’s profiles are public, that’s why you can follow them. Most people’s profiles are private, and they have to accept you. No, parent allows their child to have a public profile. That would be a recipe for disaster.

But they can accept you without you accepting them right? And you accepting them doesn't mean they have to accept you?

Sure but that requires YOU asking THEM. Isn’t this thread about the opposite? What parent asks to follow their kid’s friends’ social media? That’s weird AF.

Right? I agree but I see it happening. But like an above PP said, the teenagers probably have different accounts or filters for different groups.

[Anonymous]

What does this thread have to do with private schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes-that way I can also follow them. The more adult eyes monitoring social media the better.

I think you can follow someone who doesn't follow you. My kid follows lots of professional athletes. They don't follow him.

You are betraying your age and your ignorance. Professional athlete’s profiles are public, that’s why you can follow them. Most people’s profiles are private, and they have to accept you. No, parent allows their child to have a public profile. That would be a recipe for disaster.

But they can accept you without you accepting them right? And you accepting them doesn't mean they have to accept you?

Sure but that requires YOU asking THEM. Isn’t this thread about the opposite? What parent asks to follow their kid’s friends’ social media? That’s weird AF.

I was replying to someone who said that they allow kids to follow them because then the follow the kids. Doesn't that still require them to ask?

[Anonymous]

I feel like this should go in the “teens and tweens” board.