Category: Social Media

About Twitter – Gotchas and Tips for Parents

About Twitter is a social media platform that allows you to “tweet” in 140 characters or less. You can tweet with attached photos, videos and web links. You can also retweet – this is like a “forward” when using email – which …

About Kik – Gotchas and Tips for Parents

About Kik, another popular messaging app, has always made it clear that they were targeting youth who want to get out from under their parents’ wings. For Kik, youth are the primary focus; […] you have to get …

About Instagram – Gotchas and Tips for Paren...

About Instagram Instagram is a free mobile app that enables its users to share pictures and videos, either publicly or privately via the app. It also allows sharing its posts across a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, …

Adult Content on Social Media Exists

Adult content is easily accessible on social media sites/apps and in a previous post, we shared a video link that shared some of the impact of violent or adult material a developing brain. Now comes a poll from the UK that shares data …

Why my daughter wants a Snapchat account

Children are definitely visual beings and social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat are enabling a world of visual sharing that wasn’t possible even just 4-5 years ago. I previously wrote about why my son wanted an Instagram …

Why my son wants an Instagram account

…and why I’m still saying No (for now) Full disclosure about how we came here… my daughter installed Instagram when she was 12 without our consent, created an account and started using it. My wife did check up on …