As a senior It engineer, one of my biggest jobs at this point and in this day and age is activating safety controls for young children for the parents, it is staggering and boggles the mind how many parents do not have a clue how to monitor their kids online or even how to use technology.
I have to constantly add/remove controls on phones/iPads/PCs/consoles for parents. These controls and settings should be default on any new device/account made or created online and any new laptops/PCs/iPads/phones etc should come with full parental controls already established.
Another part of my job is removing "unwanted" photos that have been leaked online, no I'm not going to go into detail, you know what I mean and the amount of times I have had to do this is just wrong. If parental controls had been established on these devices, this kind of thing would not happen.
Whilst I sympathize with parents who lose children to social media in terms of, not sure how to put that but again I think you know what I mean, it is NOT the responsibility of Social Media companies to monitor every new account created and what it's being used for. Parents have to take responsibility for their actions or lack of actions in keeping their children safe online.
The number of parents who accuse me of being "controlling" and "invading my children's privacy" by making sure they are safe online, is nuts, a lot of parents nowadays really do believe children aged from 11-18 can be trusted to know what's best for themselves when the truth is the exact opposite. There are groups created in schools on Snap/insta/whatsapp just to insult and abuse other students and parents have no idea, how dangerous this is, until someone dies and then they state publicly "it's the company's fault" when the truth is, parents need to always monitor their children's online activity.