As younger teens and children increasingly use Instagram, you may be wondering, like many parents, what the effects could be. You're not alone. A growing number of parents are worried about the social media giant's impact on our kids' mental and emotional health.
Despite the fact that you must be 13 to use Instagram, almost one in four children as young as five are accessing content on the app, many of them doing it independently of their parents. Almost one in 10 even have their own profiles on Instagram, according to official Ofcom figures released in April 2024.
