Are you a parent to teens and tweens who communicate with their friends and peers via Snapchat? If so, should you be concerned, and how do you solve this challenge.
These questions are valid and deserve a considered response.
Therefore, by way of answering these questions, let’s look at the following points.
As an aside, the ultimate answer to the need to monitor Snapchat messages is to install one of the many Snapchat monitoring apps on your children’s phones.
What is Snapchat?
The website phys.org describes Snapchat as a “popular messaging app that lets users exchange pictures and videos (called snaps) that are meant to disappear after they’re viewed.”
It is important to highlight that these snaps are meant to disappear after the recipient has viewed them. While the snaps might no longer be viewable, the fact that they have disappeared is a misnomer. There are several ways to keep these snaps indefinitely.
The product is advertised by its developers as automatically deleting all photos after 10 seconds once viewed by the recipient. Secondly all images uploaded to the product’s servers are deleted after 30 days.
In other words, these snaps are supposed to disappear forever. However, the fact that all data uploaded to the Internet can last indefinitely, this statement’s veracity is questionable.
Brandon Jones of psafe.com notes that mobile forensics students discovered that these photos are not deleted. Instead, they are buried “deep within the device.” The app stores its received media in a folder titled “RECEIVED_IMAGES_SNAPS,” and each image’s extension is changed to “.NOMEDIA.”
Protecting your family from abuse
While most Snapchat engagements or activities between your children and their peers might be innocuous, the nature of social media and the Internet opens to children to abuse either from adults masquerading as teens or from peers and other known associates.
Your teens or tweens might protest at the perceived lack of privacy, but it should not take much to convince them that there are no other options. Responsible parenting in a digital world where online abuse or cyberbullying is rife demands a response. And one of the best ways to respond is to set up a secure and safe environment where your children can communicate with their friends using Snapchat, and they are protected from cyberbullying and cyberstalking.
2020 statistics reported by broadbandsearch.net indicate that 73% of students feel they have been bullied at least once in their lifetime. And, more disturbingly, 44% stated that it had occurred in the last 30 days.
The cyberbullying statistics are showing disturbing trends. The same report indicated that 36.5% of all people feel that they have been cyberbullied, while 17.4% reported that this bullying had occurred within the last 30 days. Finally, 87% of all young people in the USA have seen cyberbullying happening online, even if they weren’t the victims.
Consequently, the only conclusion to draw is that, as a parent, you have a mandate to care for your minor children. And one of the best ways to care for them in the world we live in is to install a Snapchat monitoring app.
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