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“Should I allow my 13-year-old to use Twitter?”
It happens after every parent workshop I teach. Parents line up with specific questions.
“Is Instagram bad?
Should I let my teenager have her phone in her room at night?
“Should I be worried if I found my teenager using Omegle?”
“All my daughter’s friends are on Ask.fm and she wants to be too. Should I let her?”
(By the way, I know I’ll get comments asking, so my answers to those questions would be: no, no, yes, and no. I let my own teenage daughters have multiple social networking sites, but Omegle and Ask.fm both are venues where anonymous people can chat with little to no accountability, and that’s never a good situation. Here’s an article with more specific details about individual apps.)
The questions always vary, but they all root from the same question:
“Is social media safe?”
This is a pretty broad question. It’s like asking Continue reading “Keeping Social Media Safe”
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