By Paul Grossinger
Nothing keeps a parent up at night like the feeling that their children are up to something they will later regret – and they are powerless to prevent it.
Snapchat is the personification of that fear.
Snapchat, a new text and image sending phenomenon on the iPhone and Android smartphones, enables users to send something to another use that self-destructs after ten seconds. Unless someone takes a screenshot (and Snapshot notifies the user if they do), there is no trail and no evidence.
In other words, Snapchat is sexting and, worse, cyber-bullying nirvana.
Most parents’ current tactics for managing their children’s smartphones don’t work against Snapchat. Reading their text messages? No, because Snapchat is a separate app, not a text message. Checking their phone every night? No, because the evidence is gone – forever.
So, how can parents prevent Snapchat from potentially damaging their child’s future through mobile bullying or sexting?
How MMGuardian Prevents
For
Android smartphone users,
MMGuardian has a feature named “
App Control” that can neutralize snap chat. When MMGuardian is installed on their child’s phone, a parent can see the entire list of apps on their child’s smartphone. For each app, parents have the option to either “
Block” the app, preventing their child from using the app entirely, or “
Time Restrict“
the app if it is not unsafe but is used too often or at the wrong times.
For Snapchat, parents may simply select “Block” and Snapchat will no-longer be usable on their child’s phone. Plus,
parents can also block any other third party messaging apps they find on their child’s phone, preventing them from switching to a similar, lesser known app. As a bonus, MMGuardian has
uninstallation protection and
tamper prevention, which stops kids from disabling its settings, so once a parent blocks Snapchat, they know it is blocked forever.
So, if Snapchat is giving you nightmares, download MMGuardian for peace of mind today.
