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:

1. 11 Smaller Social Media Apps Poised to Break Out in 2016
2. Forget Facebook, Forget Snapchat: Teens Are Doing It Themselves. (This is about a new app called Monkey)
3. 10 Dangerous Apps
4. 5 Social Media Trends

Think Before You Post

1. 12 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Posting Something Online 
2. 3 Questions to Consider Before You Share

Social Media Safety

1. 10 Mobile Device Safeguards for Youth
2. How to Keep Your Kids Safe on a Smartphone
3. 3 Tips to Keep Connected with Your Kids
4. 6 Ways Social Media is Ruining Our Friendships
5. Kids & Tech 5 (1-minute podcast)
6. Parenting (and shaming) Teens in the Age of Social Media (Washington Post article)
7. This is How Social Media Affects the Brain (CNN article)
8. 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

1. 5 Things We Learned From Pokemon Go
2. While You Track Pokemons, Pokemon Go Tracks You
3. 6 Important Things You Should Know Before Playing This Game