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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]

The point is not that they should have a smartphone.  The point is that even kids without smartphones are online, especially on SnapChat, which is how teens communicate—almost all of them are on it, even the ones whose parents have their heads in the sand. [/quote]

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