{"id":3897,"date":"2017-09-12T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2017-09-12T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:06:18","slug":"techtuesday-social-apps-your-teens-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/12\/techtuesday-social-apps-your-teens-use\/","title":{"rendered":"#TechTuesday &#8211; Social Apps Your Teens Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/342022040&amp;color=ff9900&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Teens will always find ways to use technology to socialize. Once upon a time, it was party lines, then chat rooms, and now apps.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s #TechTuesday episode on WTAM 1100 Newsradio, Bill Wills and I discuss a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2j6pX3Z\">New York Times article<\/a> on the range of new social media apps teens are using, including video messaging and anonymous sharing networks.<\/p>\n<p>For parents who are not sure where to start with online safe behavior, I recommend bookmarking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safekids.com\/\">SafeKids.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectsafely.org\/\">ConnectSafely.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, consider printing out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safekids.com\/contract.htm\">family contracts for online safety<\/a> as a way to discuss the topic with kids and teens and ensure everyone understands rules and boundaries for their online behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Every parent will have different approaches to their kids, but it&#8217;s important that you have these discussions early so that you can keep an ongoing communication about topics like cyberbullying and other unsafe behavior or threads online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teens will always find ways to use technology to socialize. Once upon a time, it was party lines, then chat rooms, and now apps. In this week&#8217;s #TechTuesday episode on WTAM 1100 Newsradio, Bill Wills and I discuss a recent New York Times article on the range of new social media apps teens are using, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2017\/09\/12\/techtuesday-social-apps-your-teens-use\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#TechTuesday &#8211; Social Apps Your Teens Use&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[314,100,42,141,53,288,480,360,283,268,237,285,517,382],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-best-buy","tag-geek-squad","tag-internet","tag-iphone","tag-kids","tag-parents","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-smartphone","tag-social-media","tag-tablet","tag-teens","tag-wtam-1100-newsradio","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}