If you restrict social media for your teens

[Anonymous]

How do kids have Snapchat without the parents knowing?
I have a tween not a teen but she put Snapchat on her phone and as soon as I saw it I made her delete it. I told her why.
She has Instagram but only watched soccer videos and food videos for the most part.
Occasionally texts with friends but not often.
No other SM.
I assume over the next 6 years I will continue to guide her decisions and keep encouraging her to make good choices. We talk about what can happen online once info is out there. How predators operate etc.
I assume by 18 she’ll be more sensible than she is now at 12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kids are going to be drafted at 18 now. Having their gentials inspected by the white men pedo party to do sports and you are worried about social
Media ?

Again, I will repeat it for you. We are not worried solely about social media as compared to other problems 18 year olds have in society. We impose restrictions on our high school teens because we do not want them to waste hours and hours and hours of their days, staring passively at a little screen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fear of TT on here is so insane. Have any of you who think it is a Chinese mind control app that steals your personal info ever used the app?

Crazy restrictive parenting is so ineffective. I simply don't get it.

PP’s post is more proof that TikTok makes you stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fear of TT on here is so insane. Have any of you who think it is a Chinese mind control app that steals your personal info ever used the app?

Crazy restrictive parenting is so ineffective. I simply don't get it.

PP’s post is more proof that TikTok makes you stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, my DD is a freshman and reports all the girls at her school whose parents don’t allow social media have Snapchat at the least. Some also have Instagram and/or Tic Tok. They set them up on friends devices and just don’t log in on their own phones. They can check Snapchat at school a few different ways.

This is insane. I can’t believe parents are policing their adult children’s cell phones.

[Anonymous]

How are you even doing this once they are adults? Are all of you saying you do this using paying for the phone as a manipulation tactic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fear of TT on here is so insane. Have any of you who think it is a Chinese mind control app that steals your personal info ever used the app?

Crazy restrictive parenting is so ineffective. I simply don't get it.

“Chinese mind control” ??

Where did you get that insane conspiracy-theory? TikTok maybe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are you even doing this once they are adults? Are all of you saying you do this using paying for the phone as a manipulation tactic?

We are not doing this once they are adults. We are restricting when they are under-18 and in high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are you even doing this once they are adults? Are all of you saying you do this using paying for the phone as a manipulation tactic?

We are not doing this once they are adults. We are restricting when they are under-18 and in high school.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fear of TT on here is so insane. Have any of you who think it is a Chinese mind control app that steals your personal info ever used the app?

Crazy restrictive parenting is so ineffective. I simply don't get it.

From The Squad to MAGA (and everyone in between) Congress recognized the danger, toxicity , and harm which TikTok inflicts on American society.

PP: question for you: what makes you think you are smarter than all of congress and that congress is wrong?

I simply don’t understand you, PP.

[Anonymous]

Overwhelming majority but not unanimous

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/20240313-congress-tiktok-ban-bill-vote-dg/index.html

Guess there are still a few Congress-critters who are bought and owned by China.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are you even doing this once they are adults? Are all of you saying you do this using paying for the phone as a manipulation tactic?

We are not doing this once they are adults. We are restricting when they are under-18 and in high school.

+1

But the OP asks “what are you doing once they leave for college”

Is everyone ignoring the question and just stating what they do for their minor teen?

[Anonymous]

I worry about this. Have 2 DDs. One is 10 and is pretty good at having balance with screen and other activities. If I tell her to turn it off, she does with no/minimal problems. I don't think social media will be an issue when she gets it

My 13 yo is completely different. Huge fights/meltdowns related to screentime. When she sneaks and gets access when she shouldn't, she's been up really late or all night. I don't think she's capable of self-regulation right now.

I'm hoping it will change as she gets older. Otherwise I worry about her life.

Side note, I talked to many parents, and a lot of them don't have any real time restrictions, so the kids are on for 8-12 hours a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How are you even doing this once they are adults? Are all of you saying you do this using paying for the phone as a manipulation tactic?

We are not doing this once they are adults. We are restricting when they are under-18 and in high school.

+1

But the OP asks “what are you doing once they leave for college”

Is everyone ignoring the question and just stating what they do for their minor teen?

Because we already answered that question in our original PPs. We said, basically, that we hope they make good choices and currently seem to be doing so (since they did not grow up addicted to screens and have other interests).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fear of TT on here is so insane. Have any of you who think it is a Chinese mind control app that steals your personal info ever used the app?

Crazy restrictive parenting is so ineffective. I simply don't get it.

Know what’s really insane, PP?

- your ignorance of the danger and toxicity of TikTok.

The Supreme Court, president Biden, and both houses of Congress, however, are not so ignorant as you TikTok users.

The ban takes effect on Sunday.