He does not have access to any form of social media.

His friend list is limited to people he knows irl.

Activity on all devices is monitored (Google family link) and controlled (pi-hole, DNS blocking, ad blocking etc).

The internet is a cesspool and I agree we should limit children from free access to this - but telling kids to stick to pen and paper until they are 13 isn't the way to do it.

Lordy what a useless study—it's a twitter poll with some statistics added. Also it's conflating the device with the supermassive but also creepily personal self-esteem killing machine, Instagram. Like why are we pretending that it's texting and candy crush? Every study that does this in more detail concludes that yep, it's social media, and specifically social media where everyone shows off how cool they are and how much fun they're having—turning up every insecurity you have in middle/high school to 11.

For what it is worth, after speaking with a friend of mine that teaches 8th grade, I think this movement should be expanded to social media in addition to cell phones.

https://www.waituntil8th.org/

My child under 10 has a tablet. She can message the family, draw, make videos, take pictures, has a album, some musics. Some, limited time, video cartoons and mostly educational games

Companies should provide better tolling to help parents follow their children online. Especially now with AI would be quite easy to make smart policies