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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My middle schooler has instagram and yes, the kids do the likes and TBH stuff. I haven't noticed anything "bad" from it. The kids say things like "TBH you're my bae!" and similar. I have told my daughter that if I felt she was using that environment to determine self-worth, I'd take it away from her. It's a fun little photo sharing site. It's not a measure of self or social worth. My daughter isn't interested in a quest for popularity (yet?) and it's been fine so far. A friend of hers was grounded from instagram because she was using it as a measure of self worth and getting upset when she didn't get as many likes on photos as she wanted.

My daughter and I go through her instagram together regularly. I follow her instagram. And when her friend got grounded from instagram, we had some really good talks about peer influence, and what you can do when you feel like you're heading into troubled waters or you think a friend is.[/quote]

OP here-- thank you for the thoughtful response.  It frames my questions well.  So my question is, if your DD posted something saying 'like my photo for a rate or a TBH' do you consider that evidence that she is competing for "likes" in a potentially negative way?  Or would you not care?  Would you want to hear from another mom about it?  I'm leaning toward not notifying this mom, although i know her well enough.

I find the 'rates' more troubling than the TBH.  The rates assign every one a 1-10 number of how pretty or cool they are . . .
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