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Great, yet another communication channel kids need to be "parented" away from at the potential cost of social isolation. It must be wearying for parents. Kids

• throwaway3699 6y ago
  > Kids are resilient, but I imagine many parents don't like the thought of their kid missing out on context/social interaction because the lazy-parents kids let them do whatever they want. (I mentioned what this was like for me growing up.) Would encourage people to share some alternative paths to not being excluded socially. There's always a way around these platforms, but as a shy kid I never would've found them without a bit of guidance.
• logifail 6y ago
  > the lazy-parents kids let them do whatever they want One of the kids in our 11-year-old's class lost it in the class WhatsApp group last week, hurled any and all terms of abuse you can think of. So our 11-year-old left the group as did many of his friends, and that got reported to the school. Who thinks an 11 year old can understand that saying stuff online could potentially destroy your career several decades hence if someone made a screenshot? I'd happily enforce a minimum age 18 for use of social media.