Episode 006, What about the children?

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week I talk to my wife Tricia and daughter Caroline to get two different perspectives on kids using social media. If you are a parent and don't know what a Finsta is, or what TikTok/VSCO are, or how monitoring SnapChat / social media works, this is the podcast for you! Social media with kids is a catch 22 - if they are not on it they miss out on a lot of their peer socialization, if they are on it there are at least as many risks and downsides as upsides. We talk about the platforms, usage, abuse, and how to try to get a handle on it as parents (including tools to do so).

OurPact - the tool we use ($8/month) for controlling access to apps and screen time. There's a locator app too but Google Maps with location sharing is pretty much the same IMO.

https://ourpact.com/

Bark - for monitoring social media, we have not tried it but have heard about it ($9/month). One caveat - SnapChat private messages and private stories are not monitored. The only way to get at those is with jailbreaking or rooting your kids devices, as far as I can tell.

https://www.bark.us/

What is a Finsta (Fake-Instagram) https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/finsta/

What is a VSCO girl? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VSCO%20GIRL

What is TikTok? https://www.tiktok.com/en/

How can kids secretly screenshot SnapChat? https://www.spyzie.com/snapchat/how-to-secretly-screenshot-snapchat.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Underserve, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.
0:12.6	Today I am joined by a very special guest,
0:15.1	my wife Tricia.
0:16.8	Hello.
0:18.0	Trish, thank you for making the big trek up
0:19.9	and joining me today.
0:21.3	I wanted to talk to you a bit about social media, more specifically
0:24.8	about the kids. We are the first generation to be raising kids with social media and
0:30.0	there's really not a good handbook or set of rules for what should you allow.
0:35.0	Like I know we have discussed internally how old should the kids be before they can have a given
0:41.0	social media account, be it Instagram or Snapchat. We know that there's
0:45.5	risks to having any of those and we want to try and protect them and keep them from
0:49.8	being exposed to potential bad guy strangers or even other kids just not being nice.
0:57.0	What have you seen as some of the benefits or challenges with the kids having social media?
1:02.0	I actually don't think there's as many benefits as there are challenges.
1:07.6	I believe that the generation that's growing up with social media at a young age is losing its ability to communicate with people
1:15.8	in person.
1:16.8	I notice when the children are given time on their social media, I think that they lose the ability to express themselves
1:25.4	and that human connection with people. I think they don't develop the skills
1:30.2	required for them to function in the world without click for yes, click for no,
1:37.0	someone didn't open me, and I think those are false senses of security.
1:42.8	And I think if we base our self-confidence
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