I have to admit…..I thought I was pretty up on things, pretty pro-active…after all, here I am in the blog world & part of the organization, WOMEN FOR DECENCY , giving anyone who is interested to know, information that I find about pornography, how to stop it, how to educate self and family and anyone else with a desire to know as well.
I knew about "snap chat"…..
I have a child that makes vines with friends. Those vines are clean, good fun. However, how often did said child view pornography? I don't honestly know, and that makes me very very sad. I thought "Vine" was safe and fun. I should have known better.
As for the other Apps that are listed below, I have never heard of those. Sadly, I am sure there are many more just like them.
BUT, this is a start to cleaning up our phones, our children's phones. This is a start to educating ourselves and moving forward.
Let's all "put one foot in front of the other" and march onward.
Together we can make a difference.
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Five Mobile Apps That Should Scare the Pants Off Parents
Dec 29, 2013
If you think you know what
naughty shenanigans your teenager is up to on the Interwebs, you'd better sit
down because I have some bad news for you.
According to a June 2012 survey
conducted by McAfee, more than 70 percent of teens hide their online
behavior from their parents. (And some of those who say they don't were
probably lying.) Meanwhile, less than one in five parents are aware that their
teens are viewing porn, uploading racy photos, or chatting with total
strangers.
In fact, the scariest
things on the Internet are the messaging, photo sharing, and dating apps you've
probably never heard of. Forget Facebook: Here are five of the most troubling
Web and mobile apps your teens may be using.
This alternative texting service let your teens chat
and swap pictures while bypassing your wireless provider's SMS service. So if
you're checking your child's normal texting history for signs of misbehavior,
you won't find any. Kik's terms of service ban pornography and nudity, but a
search for “kik nudes” offers copious exceptions to these rules. Kik offers a guide for
parents, but it's not terribly helpful. If you want to see what your
child has been up to on Kik, you'll have to take their smartphone away and
launch the app to see for yourself. Other popular alternatext apps include WhatsApp, TextNow,
and Viber.
Every day, some 400 million
photos are shared via Snapchat;
those photos then disappear, as Snapchat has them automatically
self-destruct in ten seconds or less. In theory, it's a clever compromise
between teenagers' voyeuristic narcissism and parents' desire to not have naked
photos of their loved ones flying around the Intertubes. The problem? Apps that
let others capture those supposedly temporary images and post them online are
now widely available. Snapchat recently began offering a “Stories” feature that
lets photos survive for up to 24 hours – offering even more opportunities to
harvest images. Not surprisingly, Snapchat imitators (like Wire, Wickr, and Poke) are popping up
everywhere.
For the most part, this app serves up endlessly looping six-second
videos of cute pets and teens mugging for their smartphone cameras. But it also
demonstrates just how much porn one can pack into six seconds. Following an uproar about
naked naughty bits when it launched last January, Vine Labs removed
the ability to search for adult hashtags like #XXX or #NSFW, but the videos are
still there. Worse, anyone can search for teens, follow them, log their
locations, leave comments, and try to connect with them via other services. Instagram, which officially bans nudity and
sex-related hashtags, isn't much better.
This groundbreaking site lets anyone engage in
video chat via webcam with random strangers. Users under 18 are prohibited, as
is nudity, but nobody's checking IDs at the door or making sure everyone is
wearing pants (trust me, they aren't). And if you do get booted for violating
those terms, there are lookalike services (like Omegle, ChatRandom, or
DirtyRoulette) with even fewer restrictions.
Hookup apps like Tinder let you scroll through images of
other members and flag the ones you like. If they also like you, you're both
notified, and then you can contact each other and do what comes naturally.
There are dozens of
similar apps with names like Blendr, Grindr, Down, Skout, Swoon, and
Pure. The problem? While some services require users to be 18 or older
(Tinder's minimum age is 13), I've yet to find one that actually verifies
anyone's age. Is your little angel hooking up with strangers? It doesn't get
any scarier than that.
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What can you do to stop
your kids from getting into trouble on these troublesome apps? You may need to
activate parental
controls on their devices to
keep them from installing apps without your approval, or make sure all app
purchases go through your account, not theirs.
If they do use these apps,
make sure they don't do it unsupervised – no matter how much they kick and
scream about it.
HERE is the original article from Yahoo…….
HERE is the original article from Yahoo…….
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