Online Safety Newsletter December 2023
1st Dec 2023
Age ratings are in place to help protect your child, find attached a little reminder of how important it is to check the age ratings of what your child is accessing online. Here are the age ratings of some of the more popular apps that young people are accessing. Did you know that WhatsApp has an age rating of 16?
Snapchat is a social media app used for messaging and sharing photos and videos. You must be 13+ to sign
up. Users can send messages (snaps) to others that can only be seen for a set time e.g. 10 seconds and users can
also upload snaps to stories, which disappear after 24 hours.