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5 Dangerous Social Media Challenges Happening Right Now
For every harmless or well-intentioned challenge, there are darker social media challenges, too. What’s more, with how prominent the internet is, it’s easy for your children or teens to get caught up in these challenges.
3 Instagram Risks To Children
Instagram is popular. In fact, there are over 1 billion active members in 2021. Now, while the average age-range of those users is 25-34, Instagram’s terms of use allow anyone over 13 to have an account. However in our view, just because it may be allowed, doesn’t mean that it is necessarily a good idea!
5 Signs Your Child Is Being Bullied Online
The internet is vast — with over 1 billion destinations on the World Wide Web. With that, it’s often hard to track what your children or teens are up to online. For all you know, they could be victims of cyberbullying. What’s worse, if they are, chances are they won’t tell you about it.
Snapchat Dangers: Is It Safe For My Child?
If you’re here, it’s no doubt because your child has found their way onto Snapchat — the popular iOS and Android app developed by Evan Spiegel and other founders back in 2009. Now, let us be the first to tell you: as a parent, whatever concerns you may have about Snapchat aren’t unwarranted. For, like with all social media types, be it Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Snapchat can be a huge problem for young kids.
3 safe(r) messaging apps for kids
Last week we looked at 3 of the top risky texting and multi media messaging apps kids and teens use at the moment and why we strongly recommend avoiding them. This week, we want to give you some potential alternatives that are safer. When I say safer of course that doesn’t mean risk-free. Simply safer, with less risky features.
3 risky apps you need to know.
Learn about 3 apps we think are high risk for kids - and why you should care.
The social apps teenagers are using — and keeping him or her safe online
Keeping up with the social messaging apps used by today's teenagers can feel overwhelming.
How does taking a break from social media really affect your mental health?
Psychologists believe social media can affect users both positively and negatively, depending on how they use it.
I didn't delete social media, but this small tweak I made to my social media feeds has had a huge effect on my happiness
Research has begun to show that constant connection to the digital world may have a negative impact on users' mental health.