So, Is YouTube Safe for Kids? That’s a complicated question. But it’s one that rolls around in the minds of most parents! Everyone watches YouTube, especially teens! A 2023 Pew Research study found that 95% of teens ages 13-17 use YouTube – TikTok was second with […]
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Pinterest finally launched a suite of parental controls. On August 21, 2023 Pinterest continued their efforts in making their platform safer: All teen accounts under 16 will have a temporary, unique, profile link that last 3 days. They can invite friends and family to follow their
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**Trigger warning. We’ve included screenshots and one video from our Snapchat experience. This content might be triggering due to its highly sexualized nature. If you are sensitive to this type of content, please be careful.** Snapchat Testified in Front of the US Senate On October 26,
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On July 21, the WSJ released an investigative report into TikTok‘s highly secretive algorithm, owned by ByteDance in China. There’s a reason it feels like the app gives you exactly what you’re looking for and even adults (like me) struggle to put it down. Dare I
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I Swear No One at Google Has Children Many organizations, including PYE, posted about the February 24 announcement from YouTube about new content filtering levels. They were finally adding more filtering options for parents who wanted more control. Yeah! Just as a refresher, up until this
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Breaking News: On March 16, 2021, Instagram released a new post that laid out their new parental controls for teens, which mostly focused on direct messaging (DMs). The title of the post was: Continuing to Make Instagram Safer for the Youngest Members of Our Community Instagram
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**Updated November 25, 2020** TikTok Parental Controls are (Already) Decent Parents are often surprised to learn that when compared to Instagram or Snapchat, TikTok is actually the only major social platform with parental controls. Meaning, features or functions that a parent can lock in with a
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Abortion is a polarizing topic. I’m certain there are both pro-choice and pro-life parents who follow PYE. There might even be differences of opinion on the PYE team (I haven’t asked). I just simply believe that in an app used by millions of teens, Snapchat owes
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Updated November 4, 2020 There are four primary reasons a virtual private network (VPN) may be used on a mobile device or tablet: To connect to a work-related server. To guard privacy related to everyday use. To evade parental controls. (More recently) To allow parental control
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For years, we’ve been telling parents about content on Instagram. We even coined a phrase, Instaporn, to characterize the sexualized content that seemed to be invading a once, pure photo app. Our recent testing confirms that although Instagram has clear Community Guidelines, they aren’t enforcing them.
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