Are kids actually able to just get on social media on these things? I figured they would be super restricted.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
I think the actual interest is in playing games. (IO games, Minecraft online, etc.)
By the time they are old enough to be into social media (14+ years?), most here in the US have their own phones to provide internet access.
Blocking games websites is like playing whack-a-mole. Our IT dept took all of our Year 7 and 8 students out two classes at a time, installing software or doing something to block a raft of websites.
They were back playing Retrobowl etc a day later. It was pretty funny.
But kids are kids. For example, mine and her friends are using a shared Google slides to drop memes and chat amongst themselves. They always find a way :).
Yeah you could in theory get around it and kids did (generally to play minecraft), but social media was generally well blocked, and all traffic monitored. It is made very clear that these devices are NOT personal devices for personal activity / they're monitoring them.