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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These posters who are saying 18, your kids are driving at 16 but you won’t let them have Snapchat? Have you ever been on it? It’s basically just a way to text each other.   Instead of banning things, teach them to set controls.   You don’t want them getting these things when they first go to college.  We all knew the kids who went wild.  Our kids all have friends with strict parents who have secret accounts in HS.  Don’t be that parent.  [/quote]

It is not just texting.  The messages delete themselves so adults really don’t know what is happening.  The tracking mechanism can be very hurtful and dangerous.  Twice my son was friended by people who said they went to his school but clearly did not.  It is scary.  Bullying happens because there is no record of it.  [/quote]

Incorrect on all counts lol

You can save messages, and messages stay for 24hrs unsaved unless your child chooses delete immediately. 
Snap has records of everything and I have proof of that as my husband work in special victims unit. You can also request under settings.

If you son can’t figure out who a friend is or isn’t in about 1min of texting on snap, yes he doesn’t sound mature or smart enough for the app. And if he is an older teen, that gullibility would far be my concern more than the app.

There is nothing scary about the app. Teens make poor choices in all apps and in real life if that is the life they are choosing at ages 16-18yrs old.

Some of you parents gotta cut the umbilical cord  [/quote]

You are completely wrong about being able to recover messages without maybe paying thousands to do a forensic imaging of the phone. Don’t care what you say your husband thinks. And yeah a troublemaking teen is going to delete messages.

We chose to live in a safe community, why would I go out of my way to expose my kids to drug dealers, weird sexual stalkers, bullies etc they wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to? Just have them stick with texting like a normal person. [/quote]

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