Geoff Johnson: What social-media apps are your kids using? A handy guide

If, as a parent of kids ages six to 16, you are not familiar with Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YoLo, Spotify or any of the other online or social-media sites your kids use, it may be time for a ­little research. Fortunately, some of that research has been done and is summarized in an online ­publication called Raising ­Digitally Responsible Youth: A Parent’s Guide. Easily found online and ­recommended by both the B.C. Parent Advisory Council and the Ministry of Education, the guide provides what you really need to know in 2021 to stay in the loop about the most popular online applications (apps) and trends. The goal of this parent guide is to introduce the major social-media platforms and games that are either already being used or have the potential to be used by our children. If there has always been something of a “generation gap,” online technology has the potential to widen that gap, especially when one of the generations has been raised in a world of online apps and social media and the other generation is still buying stamps and mailing ­letters, along with making the ­occasional tentative exploration into Facebook. A 2021 Pew Research ­Centre survey project reveals…
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