
Overall I am pleased with the results of Snapchat and trust my daughter to be okay. Before giving her Snapchat though, I had her set her accounts to private and every so often I take her phone from her and check. Snapchat has been good for her social life. She has been happier because she can be more in tune with her friends. That can be good or bad bad because a screen-captured photo can be used to embarrass the people in it, good because, if things do go wrong, it can be used for. Since getting Snapchat she has stopped asking me for other social media like instagram which is too dangerous for her and she hasn't been spending any more time on her phone. I gave my daughter Snapchat and since then I have been pleased with the results. Snapchat is made out to be a horror but it had nothing on the more dangerous SM like Instagram. So, I got the app for a week and every day I checked it. Certainly not something a responsible kid couldn't handle. But then I talked to my friend who is a teacher and she said while she has seen snapchat incidents, none of them prevented her from giving her kid snapchat. I have a 12 year old daughter and when she asked me about snapchat my immediate reaction was no. However, just like other social media, it has dangers unique to this platform.
