People don’t follow her because they actually care. Kids get their numbers this high by following fake “follow for follow” accounts and other nonsense to appear that popular. The genuinely popular level headed teens I know are typically in the 800 range.

Anonymous wrote:No, you shouldn't be. As long as there is no very revealing photo and she isn't posting the location of where you guys live it's totally fine. My daughter has an Instagram and has about a 1,000 followers when I asked her about it she says she has her account on private and she only lets people she knows to follow her or mutual friends.

She knows 1,000 people as a teen? Very likely a thot.

Anonymous wrote:My rule was that my kid couldn't be an IG Ho until she was 18 and out of my house. There's no reason to need to post daily bikini pix when you live in the DMV area. If you live in FL or CA? Maybe.

Lol! Well said.

Anonymous wrote:No. My 15 year old started to have a big following and when I showed her the profiles of the men who were following her...lots of really unsavory looking older men, men with pages of dick pics etc...she was completely grossed out and decided to delete her page and make a new private one.

Good job mom!

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Anonymous wrote:No, you shouldn't be. As long as there is no very revealing photo and she isn't posting the location of where you guys live it's totally fine. My daughter has an Instagram and has about a 1,000 followers when I asked her about it she says she has her account on private and she only lets people she knows to follow her or mutual friends.

+1. I'd be upset if my minor child's online presence involved age-inappropriate photos or risky behavior such as revealing their home address. Otherwise, it wouldn't bother me. If my kid can amass that much of a following, with appropriate content, good for them. Even better for them if they can monetize it.

I think it's important that kids that age understand the concept of having a pen name, and I'd try to make sure they understood the possible consequences of being famous for the wrong reasons.

But the choice is really theirs to make; I don't think there's a practical, effective way for most parents in a big, modern city to control this. You can try to educate, but you can't control what happens on the computer in the public library.

No. My 15 year old started to have a big following and when I showed her the profiles of the men who were following her...lots of really unsavory looking older men, men with pages of dick pics etc...she was completely grossed out and decided to delete her page and make a new private one.

Anonymous wrote:No, you shouldn't be. As long as there is no very revealing photo and she isn't posting the location of where you guys live it's totally fine. My daughter has an Instagram and has about a 1,000 followers when I asked her about it she says she has her account on private and she only lets people she knows to follow her or mutual friends.

+1. I'd be upset if my minor child's online presence involved age-inappropriate photos or risky behavior such as revealing their home address. Otherwise, it wouldn't bother me. If my kid can amass that much of a following, with appropriate content, good for them. Even better for them if they can monetize it.

Anonymous wrote:A 15 yo is going to college parties?

Yes, some do. Particularly if they have an older, college-aged sister.

I know a 15-year-old like this. Granddaughter of a well-known person, parents are very socially-active but have done little themselves besides inherit a name and some money. Known her since she was a (very sweet) little girl. Understand now why many scions of wealthy, famous families can have so many problems themselves. Very sad.

Yes. I don't want her to be so shallow as to want that. You can't put it on a college application either.

Anonymous wrote:A 15 yo is going to college parties?

That was my thought too.

I will qualify this by saying that I only have sons, no daughters, but NO, I would not be ok with that. I'm 43 years old and I wouldn't be ok with having 10k unknown followers, myself.

No, you shouldn't be. As long as there is no very revealing photo and she isn't posting the location of where you guys live it's totally fine. My daughter has an Instagram and has about a 1,000 followers when I asked her about it she says she has her account on private and she only lets people she knows to follow her or mutual friends.

Anonymous wrote:My rule was that my kid couldn't be an IG Ho until she was 18 and out of my house. There's no reason to need to post daily bikini pix when you live in the DMV area. If you live in FL or CA? Maybe.

OMG this is exactly what they are. Perfect phrase. So yeah, Id be really really upset but I'd also be really really stupid and I'm not. I have full access to my teenage DD's account and she has all the privacy settings activated.

Hell no. That's asking to be stalked or harassed or worse and objectified at a minimum.

The only girls who have that many followers allow anyone to follow them (accounts are not private) and are attention seeking for all the wrong reasons and in the wrong ways. I'd be pissed at myself that I had so f*ed up raising my daughter if she ended up like that. Same goes for younger girls with multiple thousands of followers - like an 8th grader I know who has 5,000 and constantly posts overly sexualized pics in bathing suits and other skimpy clothing.

Noone is dumb , we all know what someone like that is all about and why.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't like it at all for my daughter. But, you can actually make real money as an "influencer" with that number of followers.

And why are we only discussing ‘daughters’ here?

Maybe their parents are thinking that their DD’s are becoming adults and their own people separate from them ? Novel concept, I know.