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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

Today is Wednesday, August 14th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

As kids are prepping to head back to school,

Ben Salem Police are reminding parents to monitor their children's social media activity.

So they've actually compiled a list of 15 apps that parents should know about.

Here's the list. Meet Me, Grindr, Scout, WhatsApp, TikTok, Badoo, bubble, bumble, sorry, Snapchat, kicklive.me, holla, whisper, ask,

FM, calculator, and hot or not. So these are the 15 apps that Ben Sill and Police are saying

that you should watch out for. A lot of them can hide pictures. There's hidden messaging. One of them

actually will, can post where you're located at every moment

so a lot of them you should look out for police say apps like kick whisper and scout are red flags for

minors to have on their phones and the app calculator acts like its name but it can hide photos phone

numbers and other things minors don't want their parents to see.

So a lot of these have extra messaging capability? Yeah, yeah, exactly. I know I'm on a hot or not all the time, and that's how I communicate with relatives. I guess the WhatsApp is, because it's messaging and it's in an app. It's not where parents would normally go and, I guess, look through the text. Well, they were saying that, you know, there's a fair amount of criminal activity on WhatsApp.

I guess look through the text. Well, they were saying that, you know, there's a fair amount of criminal activity on WhatsApp. I guess apparently that messaging thing is easy to use. Yeah. And so, don't ask me why, but they're using a regular app. I mean, I've used WhatsApp. It's great for international chatting. Yeah, but, okay, so yes, I, why? Because it's free and then you don't have to get, like, the package through your text.

Yeah, so I have a friend who's currently living in Colombia,

and the way that we can communicate with her is via WhatsApp,

and as long as she's on Wi-Fi in Colombia,

there's no extra charges sending her a text or receiving them from her.

The one caveat is that you occasionally have to accept European D-picks. Occasionally, yes. We're dealing with a lot of criminal investigations where we see a lot of these apps pop up, said Lieutenant Jim Donnelly. Maybe go into your kid's cell phone, talk to them about the dangers of it, see who they're talking to and who their friends are. Donnelly added, you can put a password on so that your kids can't buy

apps on their devices unless you approve it. So if you enact that, you can help with the

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