Snapchat

I have a 12 year old daughter and when she asked me about snapchat my immediate reaction was no. But then I talked to my friend who is a teacher and she said while she has seen snapchat incidents, none of them prevented her from giving her kid snapchat. Certainly not something a responsible kid couldn't handle. This made me rethink. So, I got the app for a week and every day I checked it. Snapchat is made out to be a horror but it had nothing on the more dangerous SM like Instagram. Nothing bad came up. I gave my daughter Snapchat and since then I have been pleased with the results. Since getting Snapchat she has stopped asking me for other social media like instagram which is too dangerous for her and she hasn't been spending any more time on her phone. She has been happier because she can be more in tune with her friends. Snapchat has been good for her social life. Before giving her Snapchat though, I had her set her accounts to private and every so often I take her phone from her and check. Overall I am pleased with the results of Snapchat and trust my daughter to be okay.

I think that if you can trust your child and have a mature child, then this app has is definitely for your kid. I know that their is a dark side of Snapchat but my son uses it casually and has not had any problems (he was 12 when he got it but now he’s 14). I am very anti-social media and really fought with my son for a while and finally let him try out this app. After almost a year of asking I finally let him get it. And I realized that at a certain age keeping your kids away from this can hurt your child more than help them. I hope that parents considering can help be persuaded by this response. But again you have to trust your kid.

I am the most anti-social media parent in the world but this app is perfectly ok if you have a kid that is responsible. I told my daughter no to tiktoc and Instagram but I have looked through this app and have found nothing bad. If you have a responsible child and they are using the app for only chatting then it is ok to use.

Snapchat is safe for anyone over 10, in my opinion. Snapchat has a lot of options where you can pick which friends you talk to, and whom can see your stories. There’s no issue with Snapchat besides a few questionable filters, and if you carefully pick who you talk to and don’t mind Snapscores or anything, it’s completely harmless and my two daughters love snapping back and forth! I downloaded it myself - there’s no problem, but it’s your kid, so I would recommend thinking carefully before downloading for your child.

First of all, I'm mostly anti-social media. I think that it is harmful to children to interact with random strangers. That being said, Snapchat is about as much of a social media as Whatsapp. You choose who you interact with, which makes it texting but with pictures. It is barely a social media, and is the main thing teens use to text. This is a social tool for your child. I've seen a lot of other parents saying how it's damaging and encourages deception but it didn't do that to my child. My child used to be deceptive but then turned around, I used to restrict him a lot but gave him a phone for his 13th birthday. Later in the year he asked for snapchat and said it was a chance to show his trustworthyness. He was feeling left out from his friends so i said yes but he had to "add" me so i could see things that he posted. It turned out fine. He still has it today. I think you should give your child a chance and if they do poorly take it away.

My son who is 11 has snapchat. And in my opinion, it is the best thing I ever did for him. First he gets to connect with his friends because nowadays people dont use text anymore. Second of all it can be used to send funny photos to their friends with filters, send messages to people you accept, block people, send stories. The first thing when my son tried to post something it said something like, error user must be of age 18 to create a public profile which means you appear to the public and get to post to the public. My son also said he gets bullied at his school because he does not have it. I would never want my son to feel left out and that he has none of his friends to talk to. This is the best thing ever!!!!! I would totally recommend for your older child/ teen!!!

Oh dear.. So if you want your child to lose braincells and to get into sending nudes then get them this app. The content they allow is created to clickbait and everything is just constantly recycled clips from tiktok, YouTube or Instagram . Then there's the messed up stories that I have seen, some promoting types of hate speech such as fat shaming, mysoginistic behaviour, spreading dangerous fake news, and the worst which was a story promoting an AI that created art resembling naked teenage women..... They also will promote the most random "influencers" because of their terrible algorithm, these people are usually onlyfans girls who are showing off their boobs or bum, and Snapchat Is promoting that to anyone, No doubt they don't stop recommending it just because of an accounts age, I mean I'm gay so they obviously dont both finding out the demographic.. they just promote the popular accounts (influencers and porn accounts) but you'll have to keep an eye out, they don't make them obvious

Ok so I have two kids of the ages of 12 and 13 years old. I am a strong Christen parent who cares about my kids with all my heart and they were begging me for this app. Well I am very anti-social media and at first I said no to them. They are very social and sweet kids and they have many friends. Almost all of their friends are messaging on this app and only a few were not. Now I realized that my kids were not getting as many texts on their phones and I asked them if everything was ok and they said that nobody in the generation texts, they all snap. Now this was when I looked a little deeper into this and talked to some of my kids, friends moms and they all told me that there kids are very safe on Snapchat and they are not addicted but they just use it as the next text messaging. They said it is an appropriate app for young teens. I learned that kids have to accept follow requests just like instagram and they cannot just be messaged by anyone on there and snapchat has privacy features and it is not as bad as some parents might say. I even got the app myself to check it out and I could not find anything wrong. You have to trust your kids and it is your decision whether or not you get it but I advise you that it is appropriate for young teens and the app is helping my children become closer with there friends and it is pretty fun. I would tell parents it is ok for 12+. I hope this review helps.

My kids have been pestering me about social media and I honestly don’t care for it but one particular thing they mentioned was “Snapchat” a texting app now it concerns me with the auto-delete feature cause my kids could send swear words without me knowing but I trust my kids a lot so I don’t think that’s a problem I would recommend all the safety settings so strangers can’t see their “story” also limit there time on it to 30 ish a day minutes and your good. Also I wouldn’t put 2 and up but the ratings were so high I had to change it I would say 7-8 and up (my kids ages) and I will probably make them delete it at 15 so they don’t send naughty pictures to there friends overall I don’t think you should worry.

Most kids by middle school are mature enough for this app. It’s really fun if used responsibly.