"She would download the app, use if for a while, and then delete it so her parents wouldn't see it. She learned, from other underage Instagram users, how to hide the app on her home screen under a calculator icon, so she no longer had to delete it."
This really jumped out at me because I would never think to check a calculator app on their phone being used to hide a social media app.
Now having read this, as my children get older and get phones I will now be checking all apps to make sure that they are not trying to hide anything from us.
Kids these days are so much smarter with technology then I am. I will have an issue with my laptop at work or with my phone and I will ask my students if they can help me figure out my issue.
Now I need to worry about my children disguising apps on their phone, not just trying to hide them in a folder so that we don't know what they are looking at. Scary
This really jumped out at me because I would never think to check a calculator app on their phone being used to hide a social media app.
Now having read this, as my children get older and get phones I will now be checking all apps to make sure that they are not trying to hide anything from us.
Kids these days are so much smarter with technology then I am. I will have an issue with my laptop at work or with my phone and I will ask my students if they can help me figure out my issue.
Now I need to worry about my children disguising apps on their phone, not just trying to hide them in a folder so that we don't know what they are looking at. Scary