With smartphones everywhere, our teens are able to access dangerous things at the tip of their fingers. Parents, these articles help emphasize the importance of media safety.
Social media apps/trends:
- 11 Smaller Social Media Apps Poised to Break Out in 2016
- Forget Facebook, Forget Snapchat: Teens Are Doing It Themselves. (This is about a new app called Monkey)
- 10 Dangerous Apps
- 5 Social Media Trends
Think Before You Post
- 12 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Posting Something Online
- 3 Questions to Consider Before You Share
Social Media Safety
- 10 Mobile Device Safeguards for Youth
- How to Keep Your Kids Safe on a Smartphone
- 3 Tips to Keep Connected with Your Kids
- 6 Ways Social Media is Ruining Our Friendships
- Kids & Tech 5 (1-minute podcast)
- Parenting (and shaming) Teens in the Age of Social Media (Washington Post article)
- This is How Social Media Affects the Brain (CNN article)
- What Social Media ‘Likes’ Do To Teens’ Brains (Daily Dot article)
Now that Pokémon Go! is a trend, I will keep you up-to-date here
- 5 Things We Learned From Pokemon Go
- While You Track Pokemons, Pokemon Go Tracks You
- 6 Important Things You Should Know Before Playing This Game