‘Snapchat’ – it seems therefore benign. Those two syllables denote a full world of adorable mouse ears, rainbow symbols and facial distortion filters that burst onto our smart phones as communications for the matter of moments, before vanishing forever. The application now is apparently as common amongst 50-somethings as millennials (judging from my buddies parents who’ve simply found the #LOL filters).

The time that is only hear a bad report associated with the application, is whenever it is employed by teenagers to sext. Thats when security bells mainly start ringing for parents and teachers, frequently at a loss to understand simple tips to stop young ones checking out their sexuality on social networking.

But that the consensual sending of intimate communications between teenagers who fancy each other is through no means the danger that is biggest. Everything we all need certainly to actually get up to now, is Snapchat being utilizing as a type of bullying.

The frontier of bullying was changing for decades. For my generation (twenty-something millennials) cyber-bullying began on AOL dial-up via MSN messenger. (mais…)