How to protect your kids and your privacy on emerging social media apps

How to protect your kids and your privacy on emerging social media apps

Technology expert Burton Kelso joins us to discuss new social media apps and how to protect your children from bullying in a changing online landscape

Our tech experts joi c1 first there was my space and facebook, insta, and tiktok, burton joins us to discuss.

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Hey, jodie, how are you doing?

Very well.

Thank you.

What is hot off the press and what could benefit could he's have with these apps to bring to our lives?

The two top apps are parlor and me we.

Parlor is a replacement for twitter.

This has to do with right leaning people wanting to have freedom of speech and to avoid and of the advertisements that happen on facebook.

One of the things or some of the things that happen on me we and parlor, with the freedom of speech, you can post whatever you want and don't have to worry about being censored like with facebook or twitter.

Do you think these apps will some day be before congress having to answer the same questions facebook is having to answer?

That's a good question.

I think facebook and twitter are social media juggernauts.

We're talking many years down the road.

A few million people on parlor and me we.

Billions on both facebook and twitter.

Right.

What are some of the other social media networks or thing going on for in our kids lives that we should be aware of?

Obviously tiktok is one of the social media apps you need to be aware of.

Because it's not necessarily posting the videos but also c1 thanks for c1 same thing on snapchat, you don't hear about it that much.

It's always the private chat messaging that can occur on snapchat and instagram.

Parents need to be careful what their person are doing on social modia apps.

I know cyberbullying is something we worry about.

How can we be better getting in there and making sure we're protecting our kids?

Well, as a parent you can't have a hands off approach when it comes to social media.

You really, if you have a kid that has a tech device, you need to check on a daily basis it to make you're kids aren't being bullied or