In light of this dire warning, another thing that we do not do is allow our children to have their own electronic millstones—er, phones—before driving age, and even then, they do not have easy access to search engines, image sharing, or social media. The pitfalls of early exposure to the addictive and reality-twisting world of Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and others have been well documented with links to a rise in young users’ levels of bullying, depression, suicide, likelihood to be preyed upon by pedophiles, and pornography exposure.
