Do you follow your kids' friends on social media?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeez - I always accept when my kid's friends friend me. It's not a lot of kids - usually close friends of kids I have known a long time. My kids are in late HS, early college (young adults) so perhaps this makes a difference.

+1. It would be helpful to know the ages of the children we’re discussing. My daughter is a college freshman and Pretty much all of her close friends follow me and vice versa.

[Anonymous]

OP here. 12 years. I and grandparent follow so I think that's enough. I know this person to be nosey and just don't want her following.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. In fact, I unfollow my friends if they post too much about their kids versus themselves.

but that's ^^^ not what OP was asking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't but my kids' friend's mother follows mine. We made my kid's account private and eliminated people we didn't want including her. I don't even want to follow my kids friends, just my own. Am I overreacting?

I do but ONLY if they follow me first. and I also never comment on their posts, except for the occasional a "thumbs up".

[Anonymous]

No. And I don’t like it when my DD gets requests from adults. Family is one thing, but parents of friends or parents of teammates, I think is weird. Why would a non-related adult want to see what a 12 yo girl is posting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. And I don’t like it when my DD gets requests from adults. Family is one thing, but parents of friends or parents of teammates, I think is weird. Why would a non-related adult want to see what a 12 yo girl is posting?

I don’t care about the other kid, but mine shows up in a lot of their posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeez - I always accept when my kid's friends friend me. It's not a lot of kids - usually close friends of kids I have known a long time. My kids are in late HS, early college (young adults) so perhaps this makes a difference.

Agree with the college kids. And I’m excited to see that Larla was accepted to a great grad school program I’ve known her since she was 10, etc etc

[Anonymous]

I’m one of the PPs who follows DD’s friends who as to follow me first. One of those friends has a very tough transition to high school socially, and that comes through on her social media. Her parents don’t follow her, and I think she wanted a trusted adult to see some of her posts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do, but only because they have requested to follow me. I would never request to follow someone else’s child.

Same here and it’s strange how many have requested to follow me!

One of my son's friends requested to follow me but I didn't follow her back. She's a 13 year old girl that I never see or talk to, feels weird for me to follow her back. I don't mind if she follows me.