What the $18B Agreement Means for Teen Safety and Screen Time The landmark Meta social media settlement marks a critical turning point in the battle over youth mental health, digital addiction, and corporate responsibility. Following a high-stakes trial brought by…
The Australian social media age ban has officially reshaped how families navigate screen time across the country. With the enforcement of mandatory age verification under the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act, parents are breathing a collective sigh…
I read this recent article about how social media platforms like Instagram do not have any impact on teen mental health via The Verge and it got my blood boiling a bit. Research is not required to see the negative impacts…
The popular video sharing app TikTok recently added parental controls. TikTok is releasing these features firstly in the UK first and will roll out in other markets soon. I do applaud how several popular social media platforms are adding “parental controls” but…
New social media apps are born just about every day. Some of them explode in popularity, while others end up on the discard heap with the other “never was” or out of date applications. It is difficult for parents to…
A while ago my sister came to me desperate to find a way to monitor her teenager’s phone activities. I helped her get something installed and she handed the phones back over to her children. Her daughter immediately lost her…
What is WhatsApp? WhatsApp is an encrypted messaging platform that has now become ubiquitous and is very extremely popular. Facebook purchased WhatApp for an astronomical amount of $19 billion back in 2014 as Mark Zuckerberg saw the vision for WhatsApp…
There are many parents who refuse to get their children a smartphone. They think there are so many dangers lurking on the other side of the phone, that it is not worth the danger. The other side of the coin…
We are introducing the world’s first true proactive app blocking feature in Boomerang Parental Control. By blocking newly installed apps proactively and notifying parents to unblock them, we are encouraging a conversation led by parents with their children on the “whys” for using…
Written by Sarah Kimmel from Family Tech Zone. We live in a social world where we feel compelled to take pictures of our lunch and post them online for all of our friends to see, and comment, and like. Everywhere you…
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