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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the post at 4/20 11:14 am on their characterization of how their tween/teen uses snapchat.  My DD first got an instagram in 6th Grade after the earning the right to get it with a good academic performance (it's a privilege, not a right!) and we wrote up a social media contract with all the rules you would think of.  Beginning of 7th Grade, she asked for snapchat and we discussed concerns with her, but said yes after she had demonstrated responsibility with Instagram.  She's really stopped using Instagram for anything other than "big moment" posts because she didn't like the pressure to earn "likes" and the feeling of being ranked in popularity through your likes and posts.  Snapchat is just with her friends and she's using it more and more frequently to feel connected to them without worrying about likes or comments.  Middle school can be a tough time, and social media can be an important way for your kid to nurture friendships but it can also add to emotional drama.  That being said, Snapchat is much harder to monitor as a parent because if you log into her phone and open a message, it's gone from her screen and then she can't see it.  (Instagram is also not that easy to monitor, unless you log in as your child on their phone, because if you just follow her account, you can't see posts that she's tagged in or posts she's commented on, unless you are following that other person too).  And the feeling of exclusion that a pp mentions can happen in any social media format -- be it multiple photos from the event your kid is not invited to shared on snapchat, or a post on Instagram (and Instagram is more public because all your other friends can see you are not there and your kid can see all the comments talking about how awesome the event was).  I try to take away kids' phones at parties and big events for that very reason, but that's a hard line to draw all the time.  My son, on the other hand (same age), very much didn't want a Snapchat account because he couldn't think of a reason why he would want to use it other than to be up to no good and therefore wanted no temptation.  I would also mention Snapchat seems to burn through data much faster, thanks to all those photos going back and forth.[/quote]

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