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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine is not and isn’t interested. You are a bit obtuse OP[/quote]

You’re raising a kid who will not fit in. Maybe that’s fine but know that [/quote]

Oh dear, you need educating.

I have older teens. A good many teens are not on TikTok. You know why? TikTok content is pushed out via Youtube and other channels. You can get the gist without having an account. Neither my son nor my daughter have personal social media accounts, and yet they're 100% in the know. Their friends are 50/50. And some of their classmates are terminally trying to be influencers on TikTok or Insta and do nothing else with their lives.

You need to accept that there's a * W I D E * range of what's normal among teens. This is what's hardest for adults to understand, those who grew up with a limited number of TV channels, music videos and rigid trends that everyone else was watching and following. Youths today are a lot more comfortable with the multiplicity of content and thousands of microtrends. They don't NEED to fit into one media! There's something for everyone out there! If there's something "important" a person missed, someone in their circle will send them a meme about it!

And honestly, that's so wonderful.

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Posting again to note that *I* have never banned anything on the internet from my kids. We had a talk when they were middle schoolers about grooming, porn, and cyberbullying, things that for me fall in the health and safety category. But then they were free to navigate. And the result is that they have yet to create a social media account. My young adult has a Linked In, but he doesn't actually use it to communicate.[/quote]

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