Facebook Privacy Settings – Are your settings secure enough?
Essentially, the best way to protect yourself on Facebook is to delete your account altogether. If that’s a little extreme, then below are a few internet safety steps you can take in the meantime.
Fortnite Warning from London’s Fraud Squad
London’s Fraud Squad are warning Parents to be vigilant in regards to Battle Royale from Fortnite. The most successful online game ever. Kids are buying fake V Bucks currency using parents private details and innocently providing banking details. Parents are being warned tha children are being induced onto criminal sites from YouTube and Facebook.
Pro Level Gamer, nearly died from his addiction
Games are more popular than ever, we discuss the issue of controlling time spent online, how to do it using parental control. We have some simple tips you can start using today to make gaming safer today in your house.
Roblox is developing content ratings for games and better parental controls
Virtual gaming platform Roblox is developing content ratings for games and easier parental controls for their kids, says the company’s chief privacy officer Remy Malan
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.
What Parents want from Parental Control, We asked, you told us!
Free parental control just isn’t good enough, it just isn’t clever enough, doesn’t do enough, and ultimately doesn’t protect your kid’s online. According to you here is what matters when it comes to parental control, Time limits, safe search and content control.
Instagram Privacy Settings – Internet Safety for Children
The best setting there is Private. Setting up Instagram for online safety.
Here are the steps for setting up Instagram’s private profile setting it done, for iPhone and Android Phones: This way only invited friends can enjoy your Instagram.
THE TROUBLE WITH TIKTOK
The problem is quite simple. TikTok’s minimum age is 13, Tiktok does nothing during the sign-up process to check – meaning huge numbers of children join below the required age with no legal protection. TikTok also serves adverts and recommendations which may not be suitable for children. Families will find it is difficult to contact TikTok to get videos taken down.
Even truthful 13-year-olds are then given an option to make their accounts public.
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.