Family Safety Articles
Don’t think your child is addicted to Instagram? Think again. In 2021, studies found that 57% of American children between the ages of 12 and 17 used Instagram every week. Listen, we get it. Instagram is a great app for keeping in touch with friends and family, but it can also be a source of temptation for…
Snapchat is one of the biggest social media platforms out there, and what makes Snapchat appealing to many people is its ability to remove messages, which may give your children the freedom to have private conversations. But the fact is that while disappearing messages can be great to provide an extra sense of secrecy, there…
As a parent, you want to protect your child at all times, especially when they’re using the internet. This is often when they’re most at risk because you might feel that you have no control over what they’re doing on apps like Snapchat, and there are certain dangers that come with such platforms. In terms…
As advanced as modern technology feels, many people still don’t know how to track a cell phone number, and even more, don’t realize it is possible. Apps like Find My Phone are all well and good. But they require the consent of the other party to be effective. And if Location features are not activated,…
We all want to keep our children safe but it’s getting increasingly more difficult as technology progresses and the older generations don’t keep up with it. But the real threat to their safety comes from within their phones. The social media apps they use are littered with things that could harm them. Everything from fake…
If you’ve been following the news at all, you will no doubt have come across the term “sexting” – a portmanteau word that combines texting and sex. Sexting is, as you might imagine, is the act of texting sexually-charged text, images, or video through an online medium, like the Snapchat app. Unfortunately, sexting isn’t something…
As even more parents as well as grandparents welcome Facebook, teens appear to move to more recent types of social media sites. They are tired of mom uploading aged pictures of them and telling family members tales, no matter how charming and cute their dad and moms believe they are. A preferred and prominent application…
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