Technology

There's a common thing parents do though where they don't notice the point they lose total control, or lose control totally.

It's almost impossible to keep kids from the internet, they can't stop prisoners getting phones in so what hope do parents have? How do you stop them using an account accessed by school computers, a secret second phone brought second hand or even worse brought for them by a creepy guy online. And if you block the services you know of it'll push them into ones you've never heard of, unmoderated and dangerous places.

And of course there's the dream of trust but none of us tell our parents everything, especially when we've already gone too far and are embarrassed we broke the trust.

If you as a kid are going to miss out on what feels like everything that's happening with your friends then you'll find a way. Or you'll get bullied at school by groups the form online and with online memes.

There needs to be safe places that kids can access social media, just saying they can't until they're a certain age won't work and if it did then it sets them up for a lot of issues on their first day.

A lot of it is down to parents to teach internet skills and awareness, it's also down to major platforms that target kids as a key audience to ensure there are effective systems in place to combat and avoid negative situations which might result in a child being harmed.