I'm probably going to sound like an old duffer here but here we go:
We've just had our 4th ding dong with my 19 year old SD. She thinks that Instagram is the centre of the universe, more important than any of her real life relationships and worth not seeing any of her extended family during lockdown for.
For context, she posted yet another Katie price wannabe image a few weeks back, the most extreme/revealing yet and luckily another family member jumped in to advise her that it was over the line. Her father (my DH) has tackled this with her numerous times and it always results in her refusing to engage with him in any way for months (the longest was 9 months before) so it's not that he doesn't step up, our other very close family member took the baton before we even passed it.
She has a public profile with 3,300 followers, when you scroll onto their profiles they're mostly older men who only follow other girls with the same sleazy stuff in their profiles.
SD refuses to engage with any of us on the subject and has blocked everyone, choosing to sit at her mums in lockdown and sulk. The irony is that we can still see what she's posting because it's a public profile.
She's an intellectual girl, but when I look at some of the girls who have commented on her image "omg, you're unreal" "love you babes, so much I want to cry" etc etc they all have the same stuff going on. All profiles with over 100 vacuous selfies, tag the occasional boohoo outfit and gain several hundred likes from old men who should know better. I have no doubt that the DM's she gets from some of these men turn the air blue.
AIBU in feeling extreme resentment towards the trend that has turned some of our most promising young women into tarts with no concern over their privacy or safety? It's as if the competition is fierce to do the most daring and risky stuff online just to get likes.
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Dollyparton3 · 02/06/2020 18:16
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