Nov 7, 2017   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

TeenSafe Survey Highlights Digital Parenting Best Practices

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- TeenSafe, the first and leading independent smartphone control and monitoring service for parents, shares key insights from its latest survey. The results cover best practices employed by parents to manage digital challenges faced every day by today's families.

The most surprising finding is that more than 55% of parents found that schools or PTAs do not offer resources on digital safety practices. However, 30% of parents have seen resources on cyberbullying at school.

Other key findings include:

    --  12-13 years old is the average age when children establish social media
        accounts which coincides with the age most teens get their first
        smartphone
    --  Almost 62% of parents use phones to call and keep track of their child's
        whereabouts
    --  50% of parents don't negotiate a smartphone contract with their children
    --  85% of parents know how to unlock their child's phone, but only 60% know
        their child's social media passwords
    --  59% of parents check their child's phone manually either daily or
        weekly, 36% check it weekly, 16% monthly, 20% rarely and less than 3%
        never check
    --  Only 26% of parents are aware of alternate social media accounts their
        child uses as a decoy to their "real" profile, but experts believe that
        most teens have decoy accounts

"Parents need to be proactive in finding these fake accounts," says TeenSafe CEO Ralph Acosta. "Many teens have more than two or three public-facing social media accounts and a 'Finsta' or fake account where they post without inhibition thinking it will stay private. The danger is that it doesn't stay private. This study shows that there are many other steps parents can take to become digital-safety savvy including ongoing digital literacy, talking continuously as a family and protective monitoring."

About TeenSafe
Since 2011, TeenSafe has helped millions of parents safeguard their children from online threats. TeenSafe Monitor enables parents to view texts, deleted texts, location, web history and more. The TeenSafe Control parent app pauses and schedules app, data, and phone use and protects teens against distracted driving. TeenSafe, "built by parents for parents," is a proud sponsor of the National PTA and is the "ultimate app for preventing cyberbullying," according to NBC. Follow TeenSafe's blog.

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