Or rather should that be ‘tell me why I shouldn’t allow them to have Snapchat’
My eldest is 13 and apparently aaallll his friends have it and I’m the world strictest parent. I’ve allowed WhatsApp as I use it myself and I appreciate they all have groups to chat about Fortnite, school etc. I keep an eye on the chats and if they are all using Snapchat they certainly seem to still spend a lot of time on WhatsApp 🙄 We’ve set it so he can’t be added to groups without ok-ing it etc. But I feel I am getting a bit lost with my argument on saying no to Snapchat.
I don’t like the idea of disappearing messages (but they have that now on WhatsApp), I don’t want them to be trackable or contacted by people they don’t know but according to them this can all be prevented in settings. So am I missing something? I hear horror stories of bullying on Snapchat but is it actually different to WhatsApp? I think they have message streaks to encourage messaging which isn’t great but then they’d message certain friends daily anyway.
Regardless I obviously know I am the parent and while I don’t want them to have access to all social media and so am controlling it for that reason (they also don’t have TikTok, Instagram etc although are allowed a short amount of YouTube time) and what I say goes, I’d like to be able to make a better argument and also ask if I am being unreasonable to say no and should just allow it!
btw it’s not even a discussion for my younger son but anything the eldest does will eventually pave the way!