[Feedback] Parental Controls - seeking feedback and ideas for the SMARTY app

[YulianK]

Hello SMARTY Community,

We always love to hear your input, and right now we are exploring ideas about helping parents to keep their children safe online.

As with most potential online dangers, there are several risks such as:

1. Cyberbullying, Sexting - anything to do with how your children are spoken to online

2. Exposure to pornography, violent content - anything to do with content they see online

3. Privacy and scams - anything that involves your children's personal data being targeted by scammers

Which one of these threats concerns you the most?  How do you make sure your child can enjoy the internet safely?

We look forward to hearing your opinions and suggestions.

Thank you!

Team SMARTY

[Saxophone]

I totally believe in a whitelist-only approach to media for children, not blacklist-based censorship. I am a member of a mum's group where we share videos, books and webpages that suit our shared idea of what a beneficial/suitable book or page (not site) is for our children, and then I make it available to them on their devices (downloaded, and with the adverts removed and tracking also impossible). The great benefit of this is that I am not contributing to mass censorship of the internet, but rather to a community that consents to apply the rules to themselves. This also massively reduces the risk of my children accessing dangerous and unsuitable materials, and allows me to make decisions for my own family.

I don't want my internet provider to get involved with this process, in case you're wondering, SMARTY <3.

[PaulDev_1435944]

Yeah it's all pretty scary for a parent thinking you're kids could be getting groomed by some sicko but I'm sure my kids would know better and either report the beast or tell me and get me to deal with the peado so I have no worries there.

Many thanks

[LisaGrin_168371]

I wouldn't be so sure!!!

What if that beast is the same age, at the same school, a mates sibling.  You just never know who or what is lurking and your child might be scared. Vigilance is key!!!

[LisaGrin_168371]

All of the above, parent's should be able to access content and see fully what there child is doing. Blocking all of the above, via their personal device upto the age of 16

[measly1984]

Yes totally agree with this.