Why is your 8 year old daughter on TikTok?
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A proxy site is a site you can use to get around websites that are blocked via firewalls.
It really sounds like this tiktok site is becoming as much of a hated thorn in your side as facebook is to mine!
Yeah, so like if we go out of the country and I want to listen to Spotify or Pandora, but it isn't offered in said country, you can download a US proxy server that will make said app "think" you're still in the US.
That sucks @Chris, but maybe you and your family will be mentors to this youngster.
My 14yo tiktoks and I hope my wife is monitoring, I'm sure as hell not. I said no phones until 16...well my wife over-rode me on that, so any shit is on her. The 8yo is on X-box all day gaming yelling so loud, I won't miss anything in-appropriate.
Chris, here is a Website that I use in teaching digital safety in my k-5 computer courses at school. Common sense media has a lot of useful information for parents and letting their children use social media. I know in my lab I don’t even let the kids get on the computer until they can state the difference between personal and private information and why it’s important to protect it. I conduct surveys at the beginning of the year with 3rd - 5th Graders and over half of the students will have lied about their ages to start social media accounts! Most have been contacted by who they consider a stranger while online.. I always say, “so for those that have lied about their age doesn’t stand to reason that someone has already lied about their age to you?“ You can hear a pin drop! It finally clicks. Look into the COPPA Law. It covers your children until they are 13. Educate than lay the ban hammer on social media 
I dread the day I have to figure out what to do when my kid asks for a phone. For my parents it was easy since by the time I needed a phone there were only flip phones.
I won't have kids old enough for a phone for at least 15 years. Trying to balance the huge social implications that not having a phone will cause with their maturity will be tough. I'm surprised an 8 year old needs a phone at all. I think 8 is much too early to have a smart phone either way. I can see a flip phone loaded with their parents / grand parents.
I won't have kids old enough for a phone for at least 15 years. Trying to balance the huge social implications that not having a phone will cause with their maturity will be tough. I'm surprised an 8 year old needs a phone at all. I think 8 is much too early to have a smart phone either way. I can see a flip phone loaded with their parents / grand parents.
I don't see the need for a cell phone of any type until they're old enough to afford it and pay for it themselves.
You will have a teenager sitting alone at home constantly without a phone. It is how everyone plans things nowadays. Having no real friends and no social interactions outside of school isn't healthy for a young teenager either.
Expecting a landline to work nowadays is unrealistic. I remember in high school some kids with androids would be left out of social gatherings because their phones couldn't handle group messages sent from much more prevalent iphones correctly. Androids would cause a hassle for those trying to organize whatever was happening. Maybe one person would be kind enough to text the person individually, but a lot of times not.
Now replace the small inconvenience of texting someone with having to call a landline. You will have one lonely kid.
You're too late!
My oldest boy (who's on here), taught himself code at 9 YO, and turned a phone into a fully operational Linux operating system at 12 YO!
Let's just agree to disagree on this one, shall we? There's so much wrong here that I don't even want to bother with it...
ejay
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I remember about two years ago when I first started seeing ticktock ads they were always of very young well developed girls dancing to some bubblegum techno song I didn't recognize. Fine. I don't get it. But that's what young girls have been doing forever.
The part that really bothered me was the split screen. In the split screen would be an older grey haired man grinning, nodding and Iearing at the young dancing girl. It was clear to me who these ads were really for.
These ads were only around for a month or two. Then I started hearing about friends and co-workers using ticktock. I asked a few about these pedo ads I saw, but no one else I talked to had ever seen them.
I don't do anything with ticktock, partly because of those ads.
The part that really bothered me was the split screen. In the split screen would be an older grey haired man grinning, nodding and Iearing at the young dancing girl. It was clear to me who these ads were really for.
These ads were only around for a month or two. Then I started hearing about friends and co-workers using ticktock. I asked a few about these pedo ads I saw, but no one else I talked to had ever seen them.
I don't do anything with ticktock, partly because of those ads.
I forgot about those stupid ads. TikTok had an extremely aggressive ad campaign on youtube throughout all of Fall 2018. The ads were intentionally terrible and annoying as hell to get people to remember the name. I guess they were successful because I know what TikTok is and at this point don't associate them with those god awful ads.
Seems everybody hated them back in 2018:
I don't specifically remember those but I remember the ones with god awful music and just other cringy things. They were the worst ads I've ever seen.
Not to throw a wrench in here because I’m 100% on board with you.....
But I have a 12 year old type 1 diabetic child. He wears a Bluetooth device on his body to monitor his glucose levels. Now the machine itself uses a monitor which would be honestly fine for an adult. But he is a kid, doesn’t make the best choices all the time and hormones as he is aging affect his glucose.
If he has a cell phone, the app used can transmit his levels to us and notify us he goes too low or too high. It also tracks his meals and insulin that he takes.
Point is, it allows him to be more of a kid and gives him freedom he wouldn’t normally have, like staying at a friends house with parents that aren’t t trained With diabetic kids.
THAT....is the one reason he has a cell phone. Which we monitor and limit what he can do on it.
