57 here, long before smart phones.
My daughter had a flip phone at 12 and an iPhone at 16. She's 27 now and seems to navigated social media fine. We just had to explain early on that comments are just that comments and shouldn't be taken seriously.
But idk, growing up in a small East Texas town, I'd take the online bullies over the real ones.
I've got a crooked nose and some blurred vision of a few beating from a kid that outweighed me by 50 lbs. Couldn't just ignore comments back in the day.
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