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Social media is already pretty damaging to adults and teens as it is and can cause a wide variety of mental issues stemming from cyber bullying, self esteem issues, and jealousy. Putting that into kids under 13 sounds like a horrible idea. The worst part is that we know that this is only for profit.

There is no value a child can get from Instagram
 
Yes... no Instagram for kids. We don't need Mark Zuckerberg selling kid's data to advertisers. Just let iOS 14.5 be, OK?
 
Don't use Instagram. Period. Or any socially-connected application, for that matter.

These companies and the gov't are always crying foul about [sic] "Oh, encryption is going to hurt our children! The molesters!" -- it's a ploy, which should be fairly obvious by now. The reality is that using encryption makes it more difficult for surveillance, that's it. But by all means, get people riled up about something else (eye roll).
 
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