Limiting teens' screen time

[zone6mum]

When I say 'screen', of course, I mean social media. I'm actually nostalgic for the hours spent watching In The Night Garden. DD is 12, nearly 13 and spending hours each day on Snap Chat & Instagram. Any suggestion from me that we ought to find a way to limit it is met with a display of melodramatics - like I'm suggesting she give up breathing. I've been very concerned about reports relating it to depression and low self-confidence. I've downloaded the OurPact app but haven't managed to get further than that - it will never be 'our pact' as far as she's concerned, just 'my Mum ruining my life as per...'

What strategies have you tried and what has worked?

think this is SO important - learning how to use social media without it hijacking young lives..... All we've managed so far is on school nights, turn it all off one hour before bed - plus recharging OUTSIDE bedroom.... but now a challenge as music of course is on their phones!

DD, close to 12yrs, has 45 mins of screen time a day. She doesn't have a phone or access to the social media sites but she does have an iPad. She uses her 45 mins to check various game apps, email, reads her various interest sites and that's it. She's sees her friends several nights a week at her sporting clubs and at competitions at the weekend but doesn't seem to want to have any other contact with them.
Too much screen time makes her really bad tempered and boring, it takes over her life so we just went for 45 mins a day and it's worked so well. She has a lot of hobbies and sports which keep her occupied.

One hour screen time midweek for 12 year old here. Been like that couple of years so seen as the norm. Can be a drama to get him off ps4 after hour if "in middle of a game"!
Wifi password control will be used in future- you can even temp change it while at work etc if kids at home during holidays fighting! So easy to do for parents. Even just change the last password digit so easy to alter back password after 24 hour ban is up.

We have phone/computer free time in our house every evening and then leave them in a locked draw all night. 12 year old was up until 2 in the morning playing on Snapchat with friends so I had to do something. Honestly, I'm as bad as she is for getting distracted by my phone so I think it makes it easier for her that I do it too. There was a lot of drama when we first instated the rule though. A lot.