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Periscope, YouNow and Meerkat: How to keep kids safe

By Emily On June 8, 2015 · Add Comment

Confession time: I still don’t fully understand how to use Instagram. There’s an unwritten protocol of use and luckily I don’t have kids who use it, otherwise I’d have no idea how to monitor their activity. It was enough of a learning curve trying to figure out our iPad Restrictions so that my sneaky kiddos didn’t find workarounds – I can’t imagine how much more hair I’d lose if I knew my kids were active on photo-sharing and live-streaming apps. The newest crop of share-everything-about-your-life apps available for the iPad include the wildly popular Periscope, and the less talked about but still potentially kid-unfriendly apps Meerkat and YouNow. These apps allow users to video stream in real time, and watchers can comment without content filters. Sure, used within the right context these apps can be very cool for the right audience. In fact, the kids and I recently watched an important [...]

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Periscope, YouNow and Meerkat: How to keep kids safe

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