Be as cautious with this app or even more so then anything on the internet or any other social media application.ĭon't do it. We let Pinterest right in the door and it nearly cost us everything we hold dear- not hyperbole. We thought we had a handle on internet and social media content with screen time limits, content limits, search limits and communicating with our kids.
As a teen during a pandemic - it’s literally like handing them a loaded gun without instructions. “ As a fully formed adult, this can be hard to deal with. You will even get emails reminding you to see new “pins on depression. And that is now top of the queue every single time you log in and no matter how many times after you search for rainbows, unicorns and abundance, the search recommendations will always have something there to draw one back into terrible content. Click on ONE of those and it opens up a new page of more and more terrible stuff on suicide, drug use, depression. AND if one day your child searches for a Halloween costume based on slightly edgy but a movie we watched together “nightmare before christmas” search string a number of neat costumes come up accompanied by a number of edgier costumes including some that suggest self harm. We thought it was a hobbyist site for makers to share stuff. My only use of this site had literally been for a few recipes and home remodeling ideas. Our 13 yo daughter signed up for this during the pandemic.
We very very nearly lost our daughter to this app. I will take heat here for being “irresponsible” although my spouse and I try our very best. You will even get emails reminding you of updates to horrific content. And the site will keep populating that content for you once the “artificial intelligence” determines that is your interest.
The algorithms on this site can lead to horrific, traumatic content on suicide, death and drug use. Parent warning to anyone with a child using this app.
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