High school. But it’s seemingly increasingly impossible. Just the world we live in now, not sure how to handle it. If you keep your kids from using that s***, all their friends will be in it and theyll likely create accounts on their friends phones. No avoiding it

I dont know maybe teens, tough question tbh. But the people who were saying 8 was fine in those threads were buggjng

What age you giving your kid a cell phone? Cause at that point it’s out of your control they’ll be on the internet

I was on internet s*** like Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon to play games as a kid

i think it's pretty obvious that being glued to a gameboy is nowhere near the same thing as having access to every other living person on the planet who has an internet connection

When it comes to general technology, I would probably say it's best for kids to grow up in a structured environment. It's not a good idea to ban kids from stuff outright in most cases since it can put them at a developmental handicap in socialization (increasingly so even) - it's a better idea to probably instill discipline in kids. Stuff like giving only certain amounts of time for using a ipad each day for example. Kids also shouldn't have unsupervised free access really until you'd equivalently give them free unsupervised access elsewhere - wouldn't let a kid go to a mall alone? Then probably shouldn't let them on the internet alone. I also think kids shouldn't be immediatedly glued to tech - i see some parents giving like toddlers ipads and i'm like what the f***

I would prefer 15+. I saw pinky bouncing on d*** at 11. 9 /11 videos of people jumping out buildings at 12 and people getting beheaded at 14.

I think i came out alright, but I wouldn't want my kids going through that.

I also only use anonymous social medias so idk.

I think seeing terrible s*** on the internet is one thing, but I think kids on social media is 10x worse.

i was on the internet at like, 8?

but back then there was AOL, which had very easy to configure parental controls

you couldn’t just hit your browser and BOOM you have the internet, you had to physically log into an AOL account. and your parents could create you an AOL kids account which automatically filtered out adult content from your browser

yea i’m old

been on the Internet (mostly gaming forums) since I was 10 and I turned out fine so idk don't think I'll be too restrictive

but to OP's point I don't know if I can realisticlly prevent my kids from having a social media presence until their last year of high school? By the time they even reach junior high they're going to want to participate in social media

Internet probably like 8-9 and that’s only with parental restrictions on the browser etc.

Then niggas can’t have a social media until like 14-15 and even then imma monitor it.

S*** man I’m sorry.

Ideally 14-16

It’s going to start getting really hard 10-13 to keep them away though

Just got to educate them the best you can

Freshman in hs at the earliest

Whenever you don’t need to escort them with their friends.
Don’t have your kids be the one homie without a phone missing out on all the fun because people weird online.

From my cybersecurity standpoint, I’ll let a child can have an access to the Internet at least 13 or 14. Even with my supervision with domain filtering, privacy controls, etc until he/she is 18. Also teaching them basic security literacy and hygienic practice which they can’t be addicted to it.

High School tbh.

I think our generation had completely unrestricted access to the internet cause it really came into its own when we were growing up. The shot I saw on the internet growing up and I’m talking in elementary and middle school is disturbing.

From:
Those two guys that were going around murdering people and recording it.

2 Girls 1 Cup

Blue Waffle

And just all the gore s*** I saw of people heads being chopped off, pain Olympics…

There were websites dedicated to just disgusting gore s*** and me and my brothers were just crowded around one computer screen watching it as children.

I know better then to let my children ever have that kind of unrestricted access that early.

this is it, like yeah ideally not till high school but I could see kids wanting to be on social media (even hiding it from their parents) by their early teens cause that's when "fitting in" becomes so important to kids

but you turned out fine right? 2 Girls 1 Cup, Pain Olympics, etc. was crazy to me but it didn't mentally scar me or anything

I think we are desensitized

18

Just have no kids and stay worry free!

Probably 10-11

true, it's an interesting topic to me because I can't see myself restricting my kids from the Internet when it did so much for me growing up

13 probably

I was such a dork on forums at the age of 12