If all communication is via snap chat- how can you know what is going on with your kid's phone????

[Anonymous]

Read the other thread about phones. How do you check your kid's phone if everything is via Snapchat? I can't see anything on there. Doesn't everything disappear once opened?

[Anonymous]

Wasn't the southern lawyer convicted of killing his wife and son because of a snapchat?

[Anonymous]

Hence, the popularity of SnapChat.

[Anonymous]

Try to keep your kid off Snapchat for as long as possible. Seriously.

We didn't allow it until age 18 and my kid knows that she has to occasionally open Snaps in front of me. We pay for her phone and have the right to see what's on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try to keep your kid off Snapchat for as long as possible. Seriously.

We didn't allow it until age 18 and my kid knows that she has to occasionally open Snaps in front of me. We pay for her phone and have the right to see what's on it.

An 18 year old and you are checking her phone? Seriously?

[Anonymous]

13-15 every so often she opened snaps in front of me.

16 almost 17 I check through pictures and recently deleted pictures occasionally mostly looking for appropriateness.

Her therapist suggested a heads up - "I'm going to take a look at your phone this evening", to give her a chance to clean it up. But I haven't done that at this point. I think she already knows and it's usually pretty normal teen stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try to keep your kid off Snapchat for as long as possible. Seriously.

We didn't allow it until age 18 and my kid knows that she has to occasionally open Snaps in front of me. We pay for her phone and have the right to see what's on it.

Well, the court says otherwise, but ok.

[Anonymous]

Friendly reminder from a digital forensics investigator that snapchat messages do not disappear into the ether. They are still located on your child's phone AND so are the messages they receive. That is why it is so, so, SO important that if your child receives an inappropriate message from a friend or unknown person, they report it immediately.

I have personally been involved in numerous cases where recovered snapchat messages saved the case.

[Anonymous]

Yes, hold off ask g as you can. We waited till 16.
Talk to them about only talking with people you know in real life, never sending anything you don’t want other people to see, how someone could take a picture of a picture with another device - it is not truly safe.
And then yeah, you can do spot checks but it’s true, most stuff will be deleted automatically & you won’t be able to see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friendly reminder from a digital forensics investigator that snapchat messages do not disappear into the ether. They are still located on your child's phone AND so are the messages they receive. That is why it is so, so, SO important that if your child receives an inappropriate message from a friend or unknown person, they report it immediately.

I have personally been involved in numerous cases where recovered snapchat messages saved the case.

That’s why you need end to end encryption like What’s App

[Anonymous]

Snapchat is blocked on my kids phone.

[Anonymous]

Discord is a disaster too. It’s impossible for me to follow what they are talking about or doing.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone say what you do to see the snaps if they have already been opened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read the other thread about phones. How do you check your kid's phone if everything is via Snapchat? I can't see anything on there. Doesn't everything disappear once opened?

Spoiler: You can't.

[Anonymous]

You don't. At some point, you just have to trust your kid.