![]() “The app they built allowed people to send self-deleting photos, fixing the problem of having embarrassing pictures - sexts, mostly - come back to haunt you.” Why was Snapchat created in the first place? According to : And we must protect our children from the dangers of these practices. You will see below that we cannot trust Snapchat as a company. This, of course, increases the likelihood that they will be sending something that that isn’t as carefully thought out because they think it will be deleted soon anyway – compromising pictures and videos of themselves. They send pictures and videos to each other which are supposed to disappear after certain amount of time. Now kids have completely bought into the Snapchat idea. I deleted Instagram and decided not to use it at all even for myself. We had an important and fruitful conversation. ![]() Thankfully nothing bad was sent or received, but because young teens (and some older teens) don’t have much discernment about these kinds of things I knew that we needed to stop that immediately at his young age. ![]() But before I even had a chance to, I realized that through the “cloud” it had gotten onto my son’s iPod and he had set up an account for himself and was already using it! He was sending pictures to complete strangers and receiving pictures from them. I said absolutely not!Ī couple of years ago when many of my friends started using Instagram, I downloaded it on to my iPad and was going to look into it. He said yes he knew about it and could he get it? All of his friends had it. I came home and asked my 13-year-old son about it. It’s called Snapchat and apparently it is extremely popular among teens today. I learned about a new app, which really isn’t new but I had never heard of it. One of the sessions I took at the 2:1 Conference last weekend was about technology in our homeschools.
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