The privacy and safety settings make it very easy for one to end up with a lot of unknown friends on the list. Through a feature named Discover, users can view content from various sources, and there have been a lot of complaints about age-inappropriate content, especially if kids trick the app and sign in with another age. The longest Snapchat streak (by May,2018) was 1,154 snaps. It starts with someone sending a snap to another within a 24-hour period for at least three consecutivedays. Snapstreaks is a challenge-like feature that requires kids to exchange messages daily for as long as possible. Snapchat can be fun for teens, but some of its features pose risks.įor example, SnapMap lets friends see each other’s exact location on a map, which is not always safe. On average, people spend 34.5 minutes per day on Snapchat and send 34.1 messages every day day. 2.1 million snaps are sent every minute. Active snapchatters open the app 30 times every day. The app has 360 million monthly active users. In addition to letting users connect with and follow friends, Snapchat offers other cool stuff: games, news and entertainment, quizzes, and innovative photo- and video-editing tools. The app lets users exchange photos and videos (called snaps) that disappear after they are viewed.
According to Statista, Snapchat is the most important social network of their generation, ahead of competitors such as Twitter or Facebook.
90% of all 13-24 year olds and 75% of all 13-34 year-olds use Snapchat in the US. No launch date has been released yet for Snapchat's new parental control features.If you have tweens or teens, you have probably already heard about Snapchat. It allows parents to pair their TikTok account with a child's to control the account's privacy, whether it's suggested to other users on the platform, whether the child can use search and who can view, comment, or interact with the child's content.Īlthough Snapchat hasn't commented on these latest leaks, there is a huge possibility that it'll be rolling out anytime soon.ĭespite its competition, the biggest being TikTok and Instagram, Snapchat remains to be one of the best apps on the iOS for sharing images and short videos. TikTok was the first to adopt a parental control feature when it released its in-app Family Pairing Tool in 2020 and continued to develop it to enhance the parental control feature. The letter also emphasized that Snapchat and TikTok don't collaborate with third-parental control apps to let parents monitor and restrict their kids on what they can do on the platforms. They cited a range of problems they had with social media apps, such as their negative impact on the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of children and teens.įurthermore, they also noted that content that depicts abusive sexual relationships can harm a child's view of a healthy relationship that can perpetuate domestic abuse and human trafficking. In March this year, 44 attorneys general signed a letter that urges the platform and TikTok to have parental control features. Is Snapchat already a bit late to the parental control feature? Other social platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, already have parental control features in place. Not only that, but it also found that 93.31 percent had conversations about alcohol and drugs.Īlso read: Parents & Lawmakers Debate Child Internet Privacy Interventions Better Late Than Never? Furthermore, he's hopeful that the feature will help players in getting more comfortable as their parents are there to guide them.Ī study done by Bark showed that there were 3.4 billion messages in 2021 across 30 apps and 74/6 percent of teens were involved in a self-harm/suicidal situation, while 90.73 percent encountered nudity or sexual content online. He mentioned that the feature will enable parents to see how their children are using the platform. The parental control feature was first teased by the platform's CEO, Evan Spiegel, in October 2021. Obama arrived in North Carolina as part of his Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour Teachers and students listen to US President Barack Obama at Mooresville Middle School in Mooresville, North Carolina, on June 6, 2013. (Photo : Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)
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