How old must your child be before you let them have a social media account?
Are there some accounts they are absolutely not allowed to have?
Allegedly, some social media has a minimum age of 13 (a lot of kids get around this by lying about their ages). We stuck with that: when each of our girls turned 13 we set them up, sending “friend” requests to us (my husband & I share a page), family, and any of their friends who already had it. It worked for us.
- social media is not usually for our benefit. until they are grown, i dont find it worth the many risks.
like, this site- it could be an exception. but facebook, etc, definite no.
I don’t have kids. But if I did, there would be no cell phones orr social media until college .
This world… the internet is full of nonsense that is driving people crazy. Back in the old days cults could only pass out pamphlets. But the internet is an open field. Nothing can be trusted. But people don’t view what they see with any skepticism. And children aren’t developed far enough to know to question.
These algorithms on social media and search engines reprogram the brain. Studies have been done on the effects to the brain. The constant bombardment of information, the reward punishment effect of likes and dislikes amd being ignored- which is manufactured by the ai to allow visibility or by the use of bots.
Children should be kept in a small social bubble confined to their communities until they are old enough and can handle the crazy that is out there. And even though some might argue that exposure opens the mind, and this is true- we grow by seeing the world outside of what we know- we must build for ourselves a sense of roots, and boundaries, and self, before we face the world. Or else we lose oursleves in it. It was a blessing for me to grow up in the small world of my parents and town, without an unfiltered world exposure, before I eventually left them and had to come to terms with what I found.
But we don’t live in a world that puts their safety first. This is something parents must join together to change. Cummunity must be created, simulated even. And we need to rediscover the skills to do that..
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