Wanting SnapChat Advice.
13yo girl at Bording school has been asking for SnapChat. Her friends use it to communicate. She has WhatsApp and Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends. She is a sensible girl, does well at school and has a good group of like mi see friends. We are country people who don’t know anything about Snapchat except people sending nudes!! Lol. I am a hard no to allowing it, however I am also not educated in the app at all. Who has it and how safe is it??
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Someone friend requested my husband on Snapchat and he accepted 🤦🏼♀️ She ran an amateur porn account and sent videos of her naked and having sex with her partner to him and sent links to her other social media profiles. All he did was accept her friend request and she sent videos straight away.
There is also public videos that anyone can view. Just tonight I’ve seen a girl jumping on train tracks to retrieve a phone and a man jumping over a fire pit. There are lots of fun videos of course & we enjoy sending Snapchat’s to our friends but I guess like all social media you have to be careful especially when it comes to what a 13 year old could be exposed to.
Don’t let her have it. My kids don’t have it but I hear from parents what other kids do on it, it’s shocking
I have Snapchat and one thing you get a lot of is dick pics
We are currently having this issue with our (just turned) 14 yo son. We are the worst parents ever for not allowing him to have it because everyone else has it and they are leaving him out of things because he's not on it 🙄 I don't have it myself, so like you I don't understand it but to me it has a bad reputation for sending dodgy stuff that then disappears so there's no evidence. So at the moment we are a no but have said we'll reconsider when he's 15. Sorry I'm no help but I'll be following with interest what others have to say about this.
If she has the others and hasn't done anything to lose your trust I don't see the issue. As a parent of two teens it's very important for them to be included in social media situations with their peer groups
Avoid it for as long as you can. It’s definitely the shadiest social media app. It does encourage sneakiness and is a common platform for nudes and porn. A 18 year old sent my 15 year old dick pics. They think they can get away with it because the messages disappear.
My daughter is grown now but if I was to do it all over again I definitely wouldn’t allow it.