Last but not least: Monitoring instead of punishing
The new SMCP Social Media Child Protection app gives parents the ability to keep an eye on their children's activities—without having to be friends with them.
At the same time, however, children's privacy is protected, according to the developer. This is because parents can check whether there have been new friends or new requests, whether new photos of their children can be seen, as well as all messages sent or received from people who are not on their friends list. But the content of friends' messages is not displayed. In addition, SMCP allows access to information about followers on Twitter and the age and name of people with whom their children communicate on Facebook but are not friends.
This way, parents know that their child has received a new friend request on Facebook, but not what this person is messaging their child. A very good tactic that is more likely to lead to parents shadowing their children, believing they know a lot, but still not knowing what is really going on in their offspring's lives.
So for parents who would like to monitor their children ineffectively, the developer Freek van de Griendt The app is available in six languages for Apple, Android and Google Play on iTunes. (uma)
