Adventure Awaits Issue #9 | Page 29

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 … 29