Did you know that most social media platforms (apps, websites) have a minimum sign-up age of 13?  If your daughter is below that age, then they are breaking the Terms and Conditions of the platform and/or breaking the law!  Parents are always responsible for ensuring their child's social media activity is monitored.

• Guide to Social Networks
• Child Safety Online Information (Government guidelines on using social media)
• When your child wants to use social media: a parent's guide

• Social media apps: setting safety and privacy settings

• Addicted to social media – or just teens being teens?
• Social media and group violence

• Reporting to social media sites

• Sharenting: should you share pictures of your children online?

• Viral trends

• Secret texting codes your kids could be using

 

Below are some guides created by National Online Safety giving top tips to parents on how to keep their children safe when using these social media apps.