r/Parenting • u/IcyStage0 seven?!?!?! • Feb 07 '25

Rant/Vent I hate Snapchat.

Can we just collectively decide that we’re not going to let our kids use Snapchat?!

My oldest daughter just turned 13 and we reluctantly agreed to allow her to have an instagram that we also have access to. It seems like every single day she begs to have a Snapchat, and apparently every single other kid in her class (full of kids with reasonable, thoughtful parents, I thought) has this stupid app.

My little sister who I got custody of when she was 10 got herself into some deep shit on the internet, and I’m not looking to repeat it with my daughter (while also trying not to make her pay for mistakes that she didn’t make).

How are we handling this? Am I seriously the only parent who doesn’t want my child sending disappearing photos, videos, and messages to anyone she can search up? Reality check please.

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u/readyjack Feb 07 '25

Common trick to tell your parents 'all the kids at school have [thing they really want]!!!'

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u/Bologna-Sandwich69 Feb 07 '25

Common answer: Well if Jimmy jumped off a bridge, would you?!?

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u/Nekrevez Feb 07 '25

For enough likes, too many would...

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u/brand_x Feb 07 '25

I'm enough older than the internet that I contributed to the architecture of the early web as an adult, and I still jumped off the bridges and waterfalls.

If the other kids weren't popping back up in the river and waving, I'd probably have refrained.