Obsessed with musically app

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I have just deleted the musically app and banned my DD iPod! She is 10 and doesn't have a lot of screen time, usually only weekends. However rescently she convinced us to let her use an old iPhone as an iPod. Now she is hiding it away and constantly posting clips. I do check it regularly and only has a few friends as "fans". But since doing this musically she has become so angry and her behaviour is vile when I say no to things. Anyone else have this trouble? Some of the clips are funny but some are scary as they just look far too grown up pouting and dancing around.....what happened to climbing trees and taping the top 40 off of the radio? 😢

I've had exactly the same problem with my 10 year old daughter. She convinced me to get it for her at Christmas, Christmas Eve, and I was too busy until the following evening to have a proper look and was appalled that all the settings were public and that she had been broadcasting herself to the world. It had also make her incredibly moody all day so we deleted it. All her friends are on it and she pleaded with me recently to get it back, with all the privacy settings applied. So I did, as I want her to feel part of her peer group. But we are again faced with all the anger and moodiness, exactly what you describe. She has been vile all week. So I have now taken away her ipod and we have agreed to have a 'talk' tonight. I think the only way to deal with this is to have unanimous agreement with other parents on not letting our daughters use it, but at 10 my daughter at least is too immature to understand the effect its having on her. I'm sure our parents had other worries, but this whole world of social media is so so hard to deal with.

Thank goodness it's not just us! They feel left out as they do these joint duo posts etc but then they also see if others are together etc. I am going to make a conscious effect to 'do' more things together or have friends to play and not just sit glued to musically! I just can't believe my DD at age 10 is becoming so teenlike! It's all about image, a bit like when they used to worry about us years ago looking at models in magazines, now it's each other on musically. The other mums seem fine with it. Even I watch her 10 yr old stream "live" musically at 10pm in her pj's whilst people commented 😱😢