Sunrise: Will Snapchat changes genuinely make social media safer?

Like every other social media app, Snapchat has a ton of videos to view; sexy girl videos, pranks, product marketing, news. Right now these videos are lumped together and available for all users to view. Snapchat will now categories this content- general viewing and more sensitive/adult topics.

If your child has an account liked to the family centre you can flick the setting so they only see the general viewing videos.

This is a good move but it's not the answer.

We expect social media apps to design their apps so they are safe for young people however they are commercial companies making $$$ from us, they are not a parent.

Nothing replaces talking to your child about the content they see online. Social media takes up a big part of our children's lives so we need to help guide them through it. We need to know the app, the kinds of content they see on there and help them to understand and be critical of it.

If we as parents don't do this, who does? Probably no one, and the negative impact of this content on them is likely to be harsher and more long term.