在线应用程序
对家长的支持
作为父母，您肯定希望孩子时刻安全无虞。教导孩子网络安全知识或许充满挑战，但这能让他们做好应对网络潜在威胁的准备。与孩子沟通并监督他们的上网行为是保障他们安全的最佳途径。
如何监控
父母不可 能 24 小时都陪在孩子身边，时刻关注他们在做什么，但是与孩子沟通，看看他们使用哪些网站和程序，并亲自测试一些网站，可以让你更好地了解孩子是如何在网上消磨时间的。
值得了解的应用
市面上有数百万款适用于手机、电脑和游戏设备的应用程序。虽然其中许多应用程序对孩子来说既有益、有趣又吸引人，但恶意用户可能会以非预期的方式利用这些应用程序来达到自己的目的。以下列出了一些热门应用程序以及您可以采取哪些措施来保护孩子的安全。
社交媒体平台：
Snapchat
Snapchat is a multimedia instant messaging app. While the app promises users can take a photo/video and it will disappear, new features including “stories” allows users to view content for up to 24 hours.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: "Snap Map" allows your child to be located at all times. Snapchat messages can automatically delete once they are viewed or after 24 hours, which makes it difficult to prove if someone is harassing, stalking or bullying your child. "Discover mode" can expose your child to inappropriate content.
TAKE ACTION: Disable your chlid's location, limit viewers on their story an update their privacy settings.
TikTok
TikTok 是一款视频分享应用，用户可以使用它来创作和分享 15 秒到 3 分钟的视频，视频可以添加音乐、创意背景和特效。
潜在风险：TikTok会在注册时索取个人信息，包括手机型号、号码、邮箱地址和联系人列表。对脏话或短语没有限制。存在数据收集、网络掠食者和危险“挑战”的风险。可能存在非法视频被无限制分享的风险。
采取行动：家长可以在设置后使用“家庭配对”功能来限制观看时间、内容、隐私设置、私人帐户与公共帐户以及消息设置。
Instagram is a photo-sharing and networking app. People can follow their friends, upload photos, videos, or stories, and share with their followers or specific groups of friends.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: Being contacted by strangers and being exposed to inappropriate content. "Vanish messaging mode" allows messages, videos and photos to erase after being sent.
TAKE ACTION: Make sure your child's account is set to private, deactivate geo-tagging, and monitor their messages.
Twitter is a social networking app that allows users to connect with friends, make public posts, and stay up to date with the news. It is built around the posting of short 280-character tweets.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: Being contacted by strangers or predators and being exposed to inappropriate or illicit content. Very open platform to easily be contacted by strangers.
TAKE ACTION: Make your child's account private, filter topic and interests to limit your child's expose to sensitive content. Only allow direct messages from followers.
Reddit is a social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: No age verification in place although it's supposed to be ages 13+. There are also sections of the platform that have pornographic content and hate content with no penalty or restrictions. Some of the biggest concerns are subreddits that promote hate; specifically fat-shaming, racism, homophobia and misogyny.
TAKE ACTION: Turn off "content visibility" and "active communities" to keep your child more anonymous. Go to "Safety & Privacy" and "Advanced Security" to update settings.
Facebook是一个社交网站，用户可以在上面与朋友和家人联系。用户可以通过上传照片、视频、故事、直播和文章来分享信息。
潜在危险：数据泄露、缺乏隐私设置、诈骗者和不法分子。封闭或私密群组也使得内容监控变得困难。
采取行动：关闭位置设置，控制谁可以看到他们的帖子，控制关联的应用程序，检查所有隐私设置。
Streaming & Gaming Apps:
Discord
Discord is an app that allows users to talk to friends or strangers in real-time via voice, text, or video chat while playing video games.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: Audio and video streams on Discord disappear. That makes it a prime place for cyberbullying to occur without leaving any evidence. Kids can also use Discord for bullying by creating closed groups to exclude certain kids and share cruel memes and photos. There are also the dangers of predators and inappropriate content that can be openly posted on any of the streams.
TAKE ACTION: Discord does not offer parent controls. However, you can set privacy data restrictions, limit who can send direct message and restrict certain friend requests.
Twitch
Twitch is a video-streaming platform that offers a fun, social way to watch people play games and interact with streamers in real time.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: Although Twitch has strict rules around sexual or explicit content, it doesn't offer filters or age gates for specific categories and games, which include mature, violent content. Although you can hide its chat features, you can't turn it off. Users can also send Whispers (direct messages) to other viewers. Twitch does not offer parental controls.
TAKE ACTION: Twitch does not off parental controls. but users can adjust their chat filters to block discrimination, sexually explicit language, hostility, and/or profanity. Parents an also watch a streamer beforehand to make sure it's appropriate.
Roblox
Roblox is an online gaming platform with a chat function. Underage users have had issues with solicitation from sexual predators.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: The lack of moderation (despite language filters) in the chat feature leaves children at risk of exposure to a range of inappropriate adult content, bullying and abuse. Roblox appeals to children under 12, children may lack the ability to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate requests and/or language.
TAKE ACTION: Roblox offers parental controls. Parents can limit or disable online chat capabilities, restrict access to a list of age-appropriate games, customize monthly spend restrictions, and spend notification frequency in a secure way. Parents can also use chat features and report suspicious activity.
Social Reading Platforms:
Wattpad
Wattpad is an online social reading/telling platform where users can connect with their favorite writers, read, and write original stories
POTENTIAL DANGERS: Inappropriate content is very common on Wattpad. Stories tagged “mature” can include: sex scenes, self-harm themes, and graphic descriptions of violence. The minimum age requirement for Wattpad is 13 but there are no age-content identifiers, which means kids of all ages can read these stories.
TAKE ACTION: Parents can disable mature content by using the filter icon on the top-right hand corner. Additionally, parents can mute accounts if their child is receiving unwanted messages or unwanted followers.
A03
AO3 is a nonprofit central hosting site for works such as fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic. Users can make profiles, create works, and post comments, etc.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: Like Wattpad, Ao3 has some very explicit content. Ao3 does not prescreen content or review it for purposes of compliance with the ToS. This includes but is not limited to work information, a work's content, text, graphics, comments, or any other material. Ao3 also doesn’t require specific ratings or warnings on content uploaded by users
TAKE ACTION: Parents can filter out content by using the filter tab. You can filter out categories, ratings, fandoms, characters, and words.
Webtoon
WEBTOON is an online reading platform where users can read comics and stories made by people around the world. It is one of the largest mobile reading platforms with 10 million daily and 35 million monthly readers.
POTENTIAL DANGERS: Inappropriate content with stories and comics depicting graphic violence, self-harm, sexual themes, and other sensitive material. There are no restrictions on what a user can see, making it easy for kids to stumble upon NSFW content.
TAKE ACTION: Monitor which authors your kids are following and check to see if their content is appropriate for your child. The app may be blocked via parental controls on IOS and android.