Which is worse- Snapchat, Instagram, or tiktok? 12 year old

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teens use Snapchat the most...just monitor who your child is interacting with....

It's the most used because you can't monitor it. If you open a snap sent to your kid, they will know as the snap will be "read" and your kid will not have opened it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of these apps have live video broadcasting features as part of Direct Messaging (DMing). Tweens/teen don't download these apps for their main features but as sneaky ways to DM and broadcast live with others...i.e. sext with others. Every tween/teen (girls especially) are under immense peer pressure from boys and girls to share nudes. We all know that is a big no-no but happens all the time. Constantly, even in your house. Don't want that happening under your roof? Don't let them install ANY of these apps.

They don't download apps to sext or send videos. You can do this on a phone without apps. You are naive if you think you can control teenage sexual urges. They will buy a burner phone, or have a friend buy one for them, get an old used from from a friend. use a desk top, laptop, etc. The only difference is, YOU won't know. You don't control anything. You merely think you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teens use Snapchat the most...just monitor who your child is interacting with....

It's the most used because you can't monitor it. If you open a snap sent to your kid, they will know as the snap will be "read" and your kid will not have opened it.

Correct..you can't monitor the actual snaps but you can see who your child is interacting with....I know my kids friends and that is who she is snapping back and forth with....I know what my kid is doing because we talk A TON....I have zero concerns that nudes are being sent or received.....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teens use Snapchat the most...just monitor who your child is interacting with....

It's the most used because you can't monitor it. If you open a snap sent to your kid, they will know as the snap will be "read" and your kid will not have opened it.

Correct..you can't monitor the actual snaps but you can see who your child is interacting with....I know my kids friends and that is who she is snapping back and forth with....I know what my kid is doing because we talk A TON....I have zero concerns that nudes are being sent or received.....

Snapchat user names can be changed by the user or sender. These may or may not be the real names of friends, etc. Your kid must be in 6th grade. Just wait. Even if your DD doesn't send (and I hope she will not) she will be receiving unsolicited Dpics. It's a matter of time. It will be the same if you have a DS. Girls sending unsolicited full nudes. Just have your kids prepared to see this stuff if they are going to be on snap.

[Anonymous]

From what my DD was told, mean girls at my DD's MS would have the boys who were sent nudes, send them the photos. The girls would have a phone full of other girls nudes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teens use Snapchat the most...just monitor who your child is interacting with....

It's the most used because you can't monitor it. If you open a snap sent to your kid, they will know as the snap will be "read" and your kid will not have opened it.

Correct..you can't monitor the actual snaps but you can see who your child is interacting with....I know my kids friends and that is who she is snapping back and forth with....I know what my kid is doing because we talk A TON....I have zero concerns that nudes are being sent or received.....

Just because you know her friends means nothing. Girls and boys from the same ES group move into MS and begin sending nudes and hooking up all the time but they are just friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of these apps have live video broadcasting features as part of Direct Messaging (DMing). Tweens/teen don't download these apps for their main features but as sneaky ways to DM and broadcast live with others...i.e. sext with others. Every tween/teen (girls especially) are under immense peer pressure from boys and girls to share nudes. We all know that is a big no-no but happens all the time. Constantly, even in your house. Don't want that happening under your roof? Don't let them install ANY of these apps.

They don't download apps to sext or send videos. You can do this on a phone without apps. You are naive if you think you can control teenage sexual urges. They will buy a burner phone, or have a friend buy one for them, get an old used from from a friend. use a desk top, laptop, etc. The only difference is, YOU won't know. You don't control anything. You merely think you do.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teens use Snapchat the most...just monitor who your child is interacting with....

It's the most used because you can't monitor it. If you open a snap sent to your kid, they will know as the snap will be "read" and your kid will not have opened it.

Correct..you can't monitor the actual snaps but you can see who your child is interacting with....I know my kids friends and that is who she is snapping back and forth with....I know what my kid is doing because we talk A TON....I have zero concerns that nudes are being sent or received.....

Just because you know her friends means nothing. Girls and boys from the same ES group move into MS and begin sending nudes and hooking up all the time but they are just friends.

Totally depends on the peer group....holding hands is a really big deal...kissing is a huge deal...nothing else happening beyond that....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teens use Snapchat the most...just monitor who your child is interacting with....

It's the most used because you can't monitor it. If you open a snap sent to your kid, they will know as the snap will be "read" and your kid will not have opened it.

Correct..you can't monitor the actual snaps but you can see who your child is interacting with....I know my kids friends and that is who she is snapping back and forth with....I know what my kid is doing because we talk A TON....I have zero concerns that nudes are being sent or received.....

Just because you know her friends means nothing. Girls and boys from the same ES group move into MS and begin sending nudes and hooking up all the time but they are just friends.

Totally depends on the peer group....holding hands is a really big deal...kissing is a huge deal...nothing else happening beyond that....

In 5th grade, yes. I didn't want it happening either. But, MS changes everything. 7th-8th is like jumping off a cliff. My DD had a great peer group thank God but, every other kid was losing their mind. It went from the first kiss by the bus pick up to girls giving bf's in the bathroom and hand jobs at the lunch table by 8th grade. Your kids may not be involved but they will hear about it or see it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Teens use Snapchat the most...just monitor who your child is interacting with....

It's the most used because you can't monitor it. If you open a snap sent to your kid, they will know as the snap will be "read" and your kid will not have opened it.

Correct..you can't monitor the actual snaps but you can see who your child is interacting with....I know my kids friends and that is who she is snapping back and forth with....I know what my kid is doing because we talk A TON....I have zero concerns that nudes are being sent or received.....

Just because you know her friends means nothing. Girls and boys from the same ES group move into MS and begin sending nudes and hooking up all the time but they are just friends.

Totally depends on the peer group....holding hands is a really big deal...kissing is a huge deal...nothing else happening beyond that....

In 5th grade, yes. I didn't want it happening either. But, MS changes everything. 7th-8th is like jumping off a cliff. My DD had a great peer group thank God but, every other kid was losing their mind. It went from the first kiss by the bus pick up to girls giving bf's in the bathroom and hand jobs at the lunch table by 8th grade. Your kids may not be involved but they will hear about it or see it.

BJ's. In public school with the coed bathrooms, hookups happen all the time. All the time.

[Anonymous]

MS's are hoking up all over downtown Bethesda, at the ES school, the Montgomery mall, the movies, the stairwells, etc.

[Anonymous]

NO to snapchat -middle school assistant principal

[Anonymous]

tik tok has a lot of the white supremacy stuff on it.

~Mom of a 13 year old boy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:tik tok has a lot of the white supremacy stuff on it.

~Mom of a 13 year old boy.

And a lot of BLM stuff.

[Anonymous]

I would bet $$ that there are WAY fewer middle schoolers giving/receiving BJs and way more who haven't been kissed.