MUST READ! | WARNING!
PARENTS: PLEASE CHECK THE PRIVACY
AND SECURITY SETTINGS ON YOUR KIDS
SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS!
from strangers and I could also
see that she was wanting to spend
more and more time ‘doing’ the little
clips. We removed the app and she
was back playing Subway Surfer
& watching Kids You Tube in her
allocated ipad time. “Is it ok to lie about your age to get
into it? Is lying ok?” SHUTDOWN.
I have a little giggle when I think
about this one – this suited ME – in
all my training and social networks,
I was leaning towards saying no
anyway – this saved me an argument.
Then last year – Musical.ly changed
over to Tik Tok (The app was
acquired by Chinese company
ByteDance in November 2017) and
now ‘ALL’ her friends were using it
– I said that we would take another
look now that she was a bit older.
We went to sign in and a warning
popped up that it was a 13+ App.
Oh well…that was easy! Over the last few years, I will often
sit down with our girls and ‘play’ on
social media – we look up cooking
videos on Instagram, 5 minute Crafts
on Facebook, have fun will hilarious
filters on Snap Chat and do some
cool videos for YouTube – this is all
through our business profiles and all
supervised.
“Sorry honey, you are not old enough
to use this app yet”
“But Muuuuuuum – literally ALL my
friends have it!” (huge exaggeration –
she was 10!)
Our business has most of the socials
covered – however, at a recent Social
Media event I attended, Tik Tok was
suggested as a great tool for …
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