The National Parents’ Council is hitting out at a new mobile phone app – saying it opens the floodgates to cyber bullying and even paedophilia.
It’s called Snapchat – and it allows a person to send someone else a picture or video – which will disappear, without a trace, after a few seconds.
It’s already become hugely popular – and is now used more than 50 million times a day.
But spokesperson with the National Parents’ Council, Post Primary, Jackie O’Callaghan says mobile phone operators need to make parents aware of these potential dangers.
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