Every week e-safety adviser Alan Mackenzie sends me weekly updates. They are useful teaching resources but also parent guides to keep you up to date with current trends.
Here are a few tips from this week’s updates:
Lemon8 App
Lemon8 is an app which seems to be growing in popularity. Calling itself a ‘lifestyle community’ app the terms and conditions, as per most social media, is 13+. The company which owns Lemon8 is ByteDance, who also own TikTok and it’s essentially a mix between Instagram and TikTok. Reviews generally seem to be quite positive but one of the big downfalls is that parental features are a little lacking.
It’s worth checking if your child is using Lemon8 and if so have a look at this in-depth Lemon8 review.
New Parental Control Videos
A couple of days ago Internet Matters uploaded 3 new short videos onto YouTube, each focussing on parental controls for YouTube, Roblox and TikTok, the links are:
• YouTube parental controls top features.
• The top 3 parental controls to use on Roblox.
• The top 3 parental controls to use on TikTok.Â
