With children as young as 6 months already establishing a digital footprint, parents who opt to keep their kids offline find themselves in the minority.
Privacy and security concerns appear to be the main reasons to keep your children away from social media, but the decision doesn’t come without its challenges. Social isolation, bullying and alienation are all potential consequences the children may face as a result.
For Freya (who did not share her last name), keeping her 4-year-old off social media was the right choice for her family. The mom of two from the north of the U.K. told Newsweek that she and her wife stopped sharing her daughter’s face on their private social media accounts when their child turned 3.
“We didn’t want to choose her …