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I've just seen a picture of my naked picture daughter on social media! Help!

One of the most distressing things a parent can see is naked pictures of their teenage child online, sexting. Here's how we address how to deal with this issue, the services we can provide to schools, parents and businesses to help people recover from sexting.

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Discord, Gamers favourite chatbox, wants to be more. Plus how good do we rate it

Discord, a popular instant messaging service among gamers, gets the IST treatment. Discord was founded in 2015 by two video gamers and now has 140 million monthly active users. Users are drawn to the site because of the emphasis on live chat, messages, and community development. There is no advertising, no forced feed, and no algorithms.

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The Five things Kids must never share online!

Police rescue a nine-year-old girl about to meet a registered paedophile in a park near her house. She spoke to him on Instagram a year before and told him she had a dog 'Snowy'. A year later, he came back and tricked her into meeting him by asking her,  'How is Snowy'? Luckily her mum intervened and rang the police.

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YouTube is busy fighting TikTok. Parents and Kids are caught in the flak.

YouTube is the 2nd most popular site on the internet. Here's an updated 2021 review on keeping your kids safe on YouTube, including a Restricted Mode and YouTube for kids. Are they good enough o keep off the aggressive new Google algorithms shoving recommendations and adverts at you.

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Facebook ploughs on with Instagram for kids despite backlash

Social media wasn't built for kids. Facebook was meant for college kids, Instagram owes its creation to its founder’s love of bourbon, and YouTube was a video dating site.

Kids under 13 already have online social lives. Building worlds socially on Minecraft, FaceTime with friends, and send texts and emojis through tools like Facebook Messenger. But they love social media especially TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram.

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Social Media; Time to use Real Names, Real Photos.

In our talk, we recommend using Real Names, Real Photos and people question this which is understandable. This is a social media preferred by many Police forces around the world.

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TikTok mimics Instagram going for the happy vibe

TikTok is one of the most popular apps ever, so successful that kids are flocking to it. TikTok is pressing YouTube hard for kid's famously short attention spans. Now TikTok has taken more steps to make viewers behave better, which is great.

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Kids go around age verification

Kids can easily bypass the age verification on Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and WhatsApp lying about their age, according to a new research study. New 2021 study reveals that social media do not stop kids from lying about their age.

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TikTok made safer, but not safe!

TikTok is the internet sensation that became kids and teens favourite in 2020 through 2021. TikTok is easy to set up and ease, it is well designed and has blown Instagram away but not Snapchat. If you haven't tried it yourself, try it and you will see what I mean.

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Don't use TikTok if you want to be safe!

Bytedance has been blessed with the success of TikTok, however, success brings critics, political battles with Donald Trump, rebuke from Police Forces worldwide, accusations that stalkers, weirdos are grooming kids on the portal and allegations they don't care about user safety at all.  Aside from that, it's going great.

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