To be shocked at this trend on kids' social media?

[MrsTawdry]

Ok I probably AM bu to be shocked. But I AM disgusted. My niece is 11 in year 6 and has had a FB page for a year or more. But has only become active this year really.

She and her friends from school seem to be running "Hot or not" posts regularly in which they film themselves going through their phone scoring their classmates out of ten for hotness. (like 11 year olds are hot ffs)

They include the boys and the boys add comments saying thanks just like the girls do...I haven't looked to see if the boys are also scoring like this.

They run through saying "Tom Smith Hot 8.....Amy Jones Hot 3....Peter Davis hot 4...

Obviously they give their mates a good score and the others...not so lucky...get scored low.

Kids are tagged in them so they can't miss their mention. why do their parents LET THEM DO THIS!? Do your DC do this? HAve you seen it?

No none of mine do this.We'd all see it as a form of bullying and cyber bullying at that.

They can get in loads of trouble for that now,schools are really cracking down on it and so are the Police.

Any parent of a child that does this really needs to stop them.It can get out of control so easily and it can be turned on the child that started it and in a bad and sometimes vicious way!

I've sadly been witness to this before,not my own children luckily.But the end result wasn't good.

For anyone that hasn't seen it be warned though if you haven't seen it,it's really not nice.I found it quiet upsetting.But it does show how comments on the internet towards someone can spiral out of control.

I thought facebook have lessened their privacy again?

I found this comment He had also messaged 60+ of her friends all under 18, we were the only ones to contact the police. Kinda a concern.

Are wary of my niece whose 13 and her peers and wether they are that clued up on privacy etc, she has written her age on her instagram profile I think, which is probably not a good idea - should I mention to her mum?

I would hope her and her friends are setting them to private.

It is kinda sad that objectifying peoples beauty has had a reboot via social media. I thought we were getting somewhere with the photoshop backlash etc.

Muminhants

Yes, you can set your profile to private so that only friends can see. You can also send private messages to some of your friends. However, unlike facebook you can't post to only some friends but not others.

But totally agree about the teenagers being worse! I teach older teens and some of the things they tell me... Obviously, setting your parents down as Acquaintances is a common technique, having several accounts and only befriending your parents on one of them are all common methods teenagers use, and more use of private messaging. I'd never assume that because I was friends with my DD I knew what was going on socially. However, I hope that by coaching her now into what's appropriate and what's not, I hope that when she's of an age where I need to back off, she'll be savvy enough to make the right choices then. I think that's all you can do really.