This summer I'm doing a series on What Parent's Need to Know about *insert some type of online thing here*... because it's not just parents that need to know these things but teachers too AND if there is one thing we all know it's that online stuff changes so often it's hard to keep up (especially when you aren't even using that app/program)!
Today I'm talking about Twitch!
Once again, Twitch is an app I'm not super familiar with but what I do know is that it is a place to live stream videos and largely the videos on Twitch have to do with gaming.
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Here are some things I learned about Twitch
There are no parental controls. So, maybe watch a few videos with them to get an idea of how the person they are watching behaves and if you approve.
You can hide chats. Maybe the person doing the streaming isn't a problem but it's others in the chat.
Be aware that online streaming is hard to monitor and anything could pop up or happen in a live stream that you may not be fond of.
Last week I talked about what we all need to know about Tik Tok.
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