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Our teen is not on Instagram but if she were, yes, I'd look at her account and at her friends' accounts at times. You need to know if your kid has friends who are posting stuff that's stupid or worse, and what your own kid is seeing.

Ask.fm had a terrible reputation for online bullying in Europe. I wasn't aware kids in the U.S. really used it.

Our family is in Britain. Do some research on how ask.fm is regarded in Britain and the rest of Europe. Although it seems to have new owners as of last year who have promised changes, it has long been regarded as a site infamous for bullying. Maybe that changed in the past two years but as of 2013-14 the site was being written about in newspapers over there because of its links to bullying that was tied to seven suicides by teens.

Look here:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/19/askfm-askcom-bullying
"Users of Ask.fm are able to set up profiles which they use to answer questions other members ask of them. While the answers must be given by a named user, the questions can be asked anonymously, which has led to the site being labelled a hotbed of bullying."
Has that changed? Maybe it has, and the new owners promised to root out bullying faster, but I'd be very cautious about letting a kid use that site.[/quote]

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