How bad is Snapchat and why?

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SnapChat is where kids are getting fentanyl from dealers.

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You should read this DCUM thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1183437.page

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Anonymous wrote:Allowing your child to have SnapChat is horribly negligent parenting on your part.

+1. Reading this thread I tend to agree

My kid figured out some way to hide the app so it looked like he didn’t have it although he actually did. I checked his phone randomly and never saw it but he had it the entire time.

Many of them are doing this and other hacks. My kids tell me they all have snapchat and their parents just don't know. Just FYI.

How’d you figure out he had it? I’m wondering if my 13 year old has done the same thing. He pestered me repeatedly when he got his phone 2 years ago, I said no and he hasn’t asked since then.

Things kids do that I have heard about first hand and they are far more clever than my middle-age self so I'm sure this is the tip of the iceburg:

delete and download the app daily
access snapchat from browser on school device
Use friend's device to set up account and access
buy burner phones you don't know about

This is the one I've heard of. If an older sibling has it and you have a family plan, it's available for them to download whenever they want.

I'd love to hear from the pp the steps to check the messages?

One of the main things we have in place is that we have to approve every app that gets downloaded, so this couldn't happen for us. We don't say no to most of the requests, but it helps stop apps like Snapchat.

I said the same thing and my kid got a cheap second phone. One of his friends made a joke about only drug dealers needing second phones so that's how I knew he had one.

Wow are kids really this conniving? If so, I dont think the SM is the problem.

Teenagers lie. In other news, water is wet. Plenty of normal kids I went to school with told their parent huge whoppers. One kid told his parents that his grandfather sounded really depressed on the phone and he was worried about him. The parents decided to drive to see him in another state and the kid had a huge party at his house while they were away. This guy is now a 50 yr old with two kids in college and a job as an engineer.

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Anonymous wrote:Allowing your child to have SnapChat is horribly negligent parenting on your part.

+1. Reading this thread I tend to agree

My kid figured out some way to hide the app so it looked like he didn’t have it although he actually did. I checked his phone randomly and never saw it but he had it the entire time.

My kid too. I checked daily.

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Anonymous wrote:Girls used it to bully 1 girl. The nasty messages popped up to antagonize her and then they disappear. It was hard to prove bullying in this manner.

Don't screenshots work?

I think it tells the other party when something was screenshot so people avoid doing it but kids still need to know that someone on another phone can take a photo of the screen.

My 17 year old niece said kids avoid screen shots on snap chat, but will take pictures of what is happening on the app with another device.

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For the PP who mentioned you could log in and see the text messages, pls post how to do so … and will your kid know you’re doing this?

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Anonymous wrote:For the PP who mentioned you could log in and see the text messages, pls post how to do so … and will your kid know you’re doing this?

I think they now put limited text in their pictures which are gone once they are viewed, when set up that way. They seriously have ways get around most everything, thus the not being recommended for kids.