Parents of school children have been warned about a WhatsApp group which has potentially exposed pupils to inappropriate and explicit material.
A school in the UK has advised parents to ensure their children do not join “Add Everyone”, or to block and report it if they have.
Excerpt from NSPCC website “Is WhatsApp safe for my child?”
To prevent children being added to groups by people they don’t know, we recommend changing the group settings to ‘My contacts except’ and using the tick icon to select all contacts. This option means only your child’s phone contacts, except those you exclude, can add your child to groups. But by selecting all contacts, it means that nobody can add your child to a group chat without first sending them an invitation.
In the same section, you can also switch off ‘read receipts’, which means other people cannot see when you have read their message. This might help if your child is feeling under pressure to respond to messages.
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