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Want to Monitor Your Kids' Social Media without "Friending" Them?
A Norwalk father and entrepreneur has launched a software called "Kwiklook," which affords parents a tool to see their kids' posts and who they are conversing with.
Chuck Chesler, a Norwalk Dad with a 13 and an 11 year old, has launched "KwickLook," a tool that allows parents to know what their kids are saying online. KwickLook provides parents a single dashboard showing a child's account on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
Chesler's concept is to allow parents a method to quickly see what their children are saying and what other children are saying about them online.
“Parents today are the first generation responsible for their kid’s online activities. They're also the busiest generation of parents with limited free time to monitor additional social media sites besides their own,” says Chesler in a release.
“Many parents have a Facebook account and have friended their children. The reality is that most kids aren’t even using Facebookfor that exact reason,” Chesler added.
According to Chesler almost all young teenagers are using at least one social media platform. In the past, parents’ only option was to open an account on all those sites, friend their kids, and actively monitor those sites.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently released findings from a comprehensive study that found that 22 percent of teenagers log onto their favorite social media sites more than 10 times a day.
KwickLook.com was not created to monitor every portion of a child’s computer time, but rather, provide a quick glance at their social media activity.
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