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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Anecdotally, my kid has four particular 13-14-year-old friends without a smart kid, and they are DMing my kid messages that include racial slurs, violence against girls, and pornography, sometimes after midnight (my kid has no access to a phone, iPad, or computer after 8 pm).    Sometimes these messages come on a gaming platform.  I’m sure none of your kids would do that, though.  [/quote]

Yeah, it doesn't seem like those kids should have a smart phone.  So I am not sure what your point is.  They should have a smart phone so they can send messages like that all day?
Kids get around parental restrictions (that's not new) and there is no foolproof way to monitor.  Every system has holes that a teen could exploit.[/quote]

+1, OP may be mistaking cause and effect here.

Most middle school kids I know have some kind of phone or way to text friends. Having no access at all to stuff like that indicates to me that potentially those parents tried and there was abuse of the technology and now they are trying to put the genie back in the bottle. OP might think "well my kid got a phone at 11 and he's a good kid, so the key to having a good kid is to give them a phone at 11. Uh.... no. Assuming OP's kid really isn't doing anything sketchy online, I'd say she got lucky there because 11 is WAY too young to have a smart phone and access to social media.[/quote]

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