Can anyone advise re Instagram for DD (12)?

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DD1(12) has asked for Instagram. She says she's happy to keep her account locked down, add me if I get an account, and only add people she knows. We normally have a good relationship and she's trustworthy. However I'm not that familiar with Instagram and would appreciate any advice, whether you'd let your kids have it and if so, what rules we should put in place.

Minimum age is 13 so I would just say no for now.

We let dd have it at 13. She had to let us follow her and knew we might check her account from time to time. She also had to set her account to private and we said any selfies we felt were too pouty/ sexualised / posey we’d ask her to remove. We told her she was only able to add people she actually knew, and no older friends of friends / etc. It’s been fine. She’s 16 this year and we’ve relaxed a bit as she’s got older and have lots of chats about what’s acceptable etc. No issues at all.

I'd let her with those rules in place. My DS, 13, asked recently but he refused to let me follow him so I said no.

I have instagram and have let DS1 & DD2 have it and they are 13 & 11. I'm logged in on their accounts and get all their notifications and messages. I check it once or twice a week. I've had to moan at DD about her language and remind her that when she's moaning about her friend after a silly fall out it's easy for the other person to screenshot it. We haven't had any major issues so far.

Thanks for all the comments. It comes up as 12+ on App Store so no grounds there... But it sounds like with a decent agreement in place we should be ok. I'm wondering if it might make sense to have a trial period and review at Christmas just so she knows it's not a given.