What Is it?
Instagram is an online mobile photo/video sharing service
that allows its users to take pictures or upload them and share them on all
different social networking platforms. This service allows you to be in contact
with any other users.
Typically, Instagram is mainly targeted by young adults and
teenagers. As this might be fun for teenagers to post pictures of themselves,
their friends, family or things they like, it could also be dangerous. People
can comment on the photo that has been posted and they can also like it. There is
new form on contact that have been recently updated that allow a person to
directly message you.
Is it safe or dangerous?
Most of these teenager’s parents are not aware of the
dangers that Instagram users may bring. There could be people on Instagram that
are up to no good. Considering the fact that any child is able to post personal
information for anyone to see, makes this app for smartphones unsafe. Parents should
be monitoring forms of social media like this in order to ensure the safety of
their family. Teenagers are just doing what other kids are doing around them
but that doesn’t make it the right choice.
One of the more questionably dangerous aspects of the
Instagram App is that you can post your current location when you upload a new
picture or video.
This is asking for un-safe interaction. Basically, anyone that followed your Instagram
account has access to the exact location you are at.
How can you solve the problem?
It is hard for an application like this to truly keep all
people safe
but make people happy at the same time. If people were careful with the things
they say on social media and the way they post their current locations, it wouldn’t
be an issue. Because most teenagers are careless about their safety, it would
be a great idea for parents to download monitoring software to their children’s
phones in order to keep their families safe. There are awesome features to
these programs such as recovering old and deleted text messages and voicemail,
spy camera
cell phone features that allow you to see where the person is through the
phones camera and even social media monitoring. The parent who is monitoring
the target phone would have access to everything on that device. This is great
for parents because they are able to monitor who talks to their children and
when. They can see if there are any threatening people trying to contact their
kid without the kids even knowing.
This software does not show up on the target phone which
means that parents can keep it a secret that they are monitoring their kids.
This way, their children won’t get frustrated with them and make it seem like
they don’t trust their kid. Most of the time, the parents trust their children
but it’s the other strangers that are on the social media as well that the
parents do not trust.
