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[quote=Anonymous]This is truly horrifying and beyond my worst fears. I can add anecdotally that my 12-year-old was scammed out of money in a scam that started on Snapchat and it all happened in a matter of hours (gave away birthday gift cards). I know it could've been so much worse, and the violation of trust and extortion bothered my child so much that my child doesn't want a phone anymore (and I don't want them to have one anymore). We think our kids need phones, and there are nice features like GPS tracking, and they can reach us when they need something, but our generation got along fine without phones for a long time, and our kids don't need phones or social media. They need more training and more trusted adults they can go to and talk. They need to be taught about the dangers of social media and the internet before they ever get access to a phone or unsupervised access to the internet. I don't want to read about more teen suicides. [/quote]
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