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The Laurens County Sheriff Office is warning parents about Snapchat after deputies arrested a 44-year-old man posing as a 17-year-old on the app. LAURENS COUNTY, Ga. — The Laurens County Sheriff Office is warning parents about Snapchat after deputies arrested a 44-year-old man posing as a 17-year-old boy on the app.  According to the office's Facebook post, the man messaged several underage girls within Laurens County. Sheriff Larry Dean told 13WMAZ that man now faces a child molestation charge.  The Laurens County Sheriff's Office says with this news, parents need to talk to their kids and check their Snapchat app.  According to a Facebook post from the Sheriff's Office, the 44-year-old man who deputies have not identified yet, goes by the username "clemson1889". His Snapchat profile Bitmoji looks like this. The sheriff's office says if your child has had contact with that user, call the sheriff's office immediately at 478-272-1522.  We spoke to licensed professional counselor Jaqui Wilson about how parents can protect their children online.  1. Talk to your child about the app She says start by having a conversation with your child about the app.  "Say 'Hey, look. This has come on the news. This has happened --…

Email From Fleets to newsletters and now short-form video content, Twitter wants to cover all its bases. Internet users are currently riding an increased interest in quick, easy-to-consume video content. Social media platforms were very quick to adapt stories, or disappearing portrait photos and videos, soon after Snapchat emerged in 2011. Now, Twitter is looking to clone TikTok's features in a similar fashion... or better yet, buy another app that already has. Three sources told TechCrunch that Twitter was looking to acquire Indian social media startup ShareChat in order to push it to compete with TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing service that has exploded in popularity over the last few years. India banned TikTok in June 2020, which has since caused local startups and international companies to try and master the short-form video format. Twitter reportedly offered to buy ShareChat for $1.1 billion, on top of a $900 million investment. However, the deal fell through for reasons unspecified. Some users speculate it's because ShareChat partnered with Snapchat recently to launch Camera Kit. Although ShareChat claims to have over 160 million users, it is said that Twitter's primary interest was in Moj, a short-form video app that ShareChat owns. Moj describes itself a stage for "never-ending entertaining videos to watch…

Matthew Paul Hockley who is standing trial for allegedly grooming a child under 16 leaves Brisbane District Court.A Queensland police officer working within the child protection unit allegedly sent vile Snapchat messages to a teenager who he was meant to be helping, a court heard.Several screenshots of the messages allegedly sent by Matthew Paul Hockley to the 15-year-old girl were displayed to the Brisbane District Court on the first day of Mr Hockley’s trial.Mr Hockley (left in sunglasses) allegedly sent a 15-year-old girl vile and explicit images over Snapchat for several weeks in 2019. Picture: NewsWire / John GassMr Hockley, a senior constable, is charged with grooming a child under 16 to procure engagement in a sexual act, grooming a child under 16 with intent to expose to indecent matter and one count of using the internet to procure a child under 16.Read NextHe pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday.Crown prosecutor Judy Geary said the alleged offences occurred over several weeks between July and August 2019.The court was told Mr Hockley and the girl got into contact over Snapchat after she was interviewed by police over nude photographs circulated to her school.“He told her he was the police…

FACEBOOK HAS SHUT down social media profiles advertising an illegal “lockdown rave” after profiles gained traction online. The event, which has been advertised on both Instagram and Snapchat, would be in breach of Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions if it went ahead. “We have restricted access to this account as it violates government Covid-19 health guidelines,” said a Facebook company spokesperson. “We are committed to supporting the HSE’s work to keep people safe and informed, including on the importance of social distancing.”  While Level 5 restrictions officially end on 5 March, it is all but certain that they will be extended into April. Level 5 restrictions prevent social gatherings of any type, with exceptions for social bubbles or for essential family reasons like childcare. According to posts seen by TheJournal.ie, the illegal rave was planned to be held in Dublin or Kildare, and organisers were planning on announcing the location 12 hours before the event began. Posts by the organiser before the page was taken down reported that they had sold over 1200 tickets to the event. The group’s Snapchat profile has also been taken down, due to Snapchat’s community safety policy against using the app for any illegal purposes. “Our…

These are the faces of 12 paedophiles and perverts linked to Merseyside jailed so far this year for terrible sex crimes. This grim list includes a cowardly sex attacker who targeted a girl in a nightmare ordeal as she walked home from school. Judges dealt with one young man who groomed girls on Snapchat before subjecting them to sexual abuse, some of which the sick pervert filmed on his mobile phone, and another predator who used the social network to groom a child before repeatedly raping her. Courts heard details of how deviants - including two university workers - collecting sickening images and in one case, even planned to have sex with a 13-year-old girl while her mum watched. Meanwhile, a monstrous paedophile guilty of historic sex offences was also sentenced. But thanks to brave victims who were willing to speak out - and in some cases go through the ordeal of giving evidence at trials - these sick individuals were locked up, meaning our communities are safer. Dean Lockley Dean Lockley, 30, from Aintree but of no fixed address (Image: Liverpool Echo) Dean Lockley dragged a schoolgirl into woodlands and sexually assaulted her in an "unimaginable" and "terrifying" ordeal.…

You might have faced awkward situations where a relative or acquaintance replies to a story meant for your close friends. If you have someone like that in your contacts or followers list whom you can’t really unfollow or block, hiding your stories from them is a potential option. For those wondering how to hide stories, here’s how you can do it on popular social media and instant messaging platforms namely Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat. Hide Stories from People on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat We’ve added separate set of steps to cover Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat. If you’re looking for the instructions for some other app with stories, do not hesitate to let us know in the comments and we’ll try to include them. For now, check out how you can hide stories on these three aforesaid platforms. Hide Story on Instagram 1. To hide stories from certain people on Instagram, you should first access Settings. To do so, tap on the hamburger menu on your profile page and tap on Settings. 2. From the Settings page, tap on Privacy. Under the ‘Interactions’ section of privacy page, press ‘Story’ to view privacy settings related to Instagram stories. 3. You’ll now see…

When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later.Hours before a fatal stabbing a gang partied with drugs, knives, wads of cash and dance music. But their Snapchat boasts backfired, as later that night the police began investigating them for murder. Detectives used the footage to help track the killers' movements on the night of October 20 2019, when 26-year-old Solomon Robinson was stabbed to death with a machete in Scarborough. And the video would ultimately be used to help bring a conviction against four of the men who stood trial accused of murder, Dawid Goral, 21, Callon Brass, 22, Kieran Watkinson, 19, and Stevie Low, 23. The other defendant Stefan Selvage, 19, admitted murder the day before the trial. The court was shown the Snapchat footage that was captured just hours before the appalling stabbing which shows the group at a party together where drugs, knives and a large amount of money can be seen. Snapchat…

TikTok has been the talk of the town or should we say world since the recent pandemic came. Going from a few thousand users at the start of 2020 to more than a million users in less than a year, leaving behind social media giants like Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat. Also having their copied versions made by Facebook’s Instagram Reels and Snapchat’s Spotlight is an achievement itself. Now YouTube, the video-sharing platform with more than 2 billion users has created something similar to TikTok called Shorts.And as the YouTube chief product officer, Neal Mohan on Wednesday, said that the beta version of Shorts is currently running in India since September 2020 and they are planning to expand it in the United States soon. Also, they are trying to make YouTube TV an all-purpose in-home cable substitute, add customization and control options to YouTube Kids, and more.Users will be able to create and upload videos of up to 15 seconds, with additional tools for adding music and adjusting clips together. According to YouTube, this feature is getting 3.5 Billion views per day, worldwide.YouTube is planning to launch its SHORTS in the United States in the coming weeks. Also, you should know…

A 16 year old boy died of a drug overdose Sunday afternoon in the 1000 block of Yale Street, reports Lt. Rudy Flores of the Santa Monica Police Department. His parents believe he ordered Xanax or Percocet online. They turned out to be laced with Fentanyl.The boy was Dr. Laura Berman's son, Samuel. Berman is a psychological therapist who has a syndicated national show. She stated in an Instagram post that her son had purchased prescription drugs via Snapchat and overdosed in his bedroom."My beautiful boy is gone. 16 years old. Sheltering at home. A drug dealer connected with him on Snapchat and gave him fentanyl-laced Xanax or Percocet (toxicology will tell) and he overdosed in his room....""They do this because it hooks people even more and is good for business but It causes overdose and the kids don't know what they are taking. My heart is completely shattered and I am not sure how to keep breathing. I post this now only so that not one more kid dies. We watched him so closely. Straight A student. Getting ready for college. Experimentation gone bad. He got the drugs delivered to the house. Please watch your kids and WATCH SNAPCHAT…

Thursday 18-02-2021 10:47 There are four weeks left to enter the 2021 Effective Digital Marketing Awards. The awards, now in their fifth year, celebrate excellence in digital marketing across 28 categories, including individual awards for the Most Effective Campaign on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter, and an award for the Most Effective Pandemic Campaign. Winners in last year’s competition included SEAT, Pizza Hut, Médecins Sans Frontières, The Very Group and Audi. The entry deadline is 19 March. The entry fee is £195 (plus VAT where applicable), per submission, to enter into one category. The cost to enter the same campaign or solution into additional categories is £150 per additional category. There’s more information here. Or you can click here to head straight to the Awards Portal and start on your entries. In the meantime, here’s the full list of categories…   Most Effective Advertising Campaign    Most Effective Attribution Solution  Most Effective B2B Campaign Most Effective Branded Content Campaign Most Effective Data & Analytics Campaign   Most Effective DTC eCommerce Campaign   Most Effective Facebook Campaign   Most Effective FMCG/CPG Campaign   Most Effective Influencer Campaign   Most Effective Instagram Campaign   Most Effective Integrated Campaign   Most Effective International Campaign   Most Effective Launch Campaign   Most Effective Location Campaign  …