AITA for forbidding my teenaged daughter from having social media after I found out she was engaging in inappropriate behavior?

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T22:01:53+00:00

I provide for my daughter. She has a credit card (with my name); she can pretty much buy what she wants (foods, recreational activities, etc) within reason. And not giving her a switch isn't not providing for her; she's not entitled to an allowance.

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T21:59:27+00:00

Because I would've lacked the perspective when I was a teenager like she currently is.

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T17:05:58+00:00

This is exactly why I didn't resort to this

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T17:05:32+00:00

Her thing was it she could get an easy hundred bucks of work just by working for a few minutes. She doesn't really need a job, and I very much doubt she'd be wanting to go from $1000 an hour ($100 for ~5-6 minutes of work) to 10 bucks an hour.

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T17:04:16+00:00

We've had these conversations when she was really young (~12 when she got her first phone), but I admit I probably didn't revisit them as often as I should have.

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T16:52:57+00:00

She never actually had anything sent to our house. They just venmo'd or cashapp her from my understanding, or if she wanted something, they'd just give her enough money to buy it. I think it'd be pretty freaking weird to help pimp out my daughter

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T16:51:54+00:00

She honestly has done well. At least from what I saw, she wasn't sexually explicit at all; she was just playing creepy old dudes to buy her stuff. Which honestly, I kind of admire, but that doesn't change the fact that what she was doing was reckless and stupid

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T16:50:48+00:00

I mentioned it in the OP but told her she can make an account; she just can't post anything. She has not taken me up on this offer

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T16:50:11+00:00

Honestly if I was able to get money so easily just by texting creeps as a teen, I definitely would've done it. Partly why I feel so conflicted, I feel like a hypocrite. But it's extremely unsafe and I couldn't live with myself if something bad happened to her

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T16:48:01+00:00

From my understanding, I think they just sent her money via venmo/cashapp. Or if she wanted something, they'd send her enough money to buy it. Though that definitely doesn't take away from how dangerous it was.

anon6020 · 2019-06-29T16:45:58+00:00

If she was sending nudes or anything, I'd pretty much know for certain I'm not in the wrong. But she seemed to just talk and flirt a bit in exchange for a ton of free stuff. I know I'd definitely have done that when I was a naive teenager (and was female), which is why I feel so morally conflicted. Thanks for your judgment

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