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How parental social media monitoring backfires

My mom follows me on all my social media and comments on everything and it makes me want to delete all my accounts just to have some privacy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Well-intentioned oversight can drive deeper underground the very behaviors and feelings parents hope to understand and protect.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media and adolescent mental health?”

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