Kids have access to all kinds of devices these days- cell phones, tablets, and computers. What this device use means for us as parents is really new ground that families are trying to navigate. We all want to keep our kids safe but we all see the need to let them access technology. As a parent you have probably heard that talking to your children and monitoring their device usage is necessary to family internet safety. Well, thankfully, a new kind of family internet safety software, Bark, has come along to make these dangerous new waters safer. This post is sponsored by Bark and they aim to be “your family’s watchdog for internet safety.”
Bark monitor’s your child’s social media accounts, email, and text messages for you and notifies you if they detect words that may indicate cyberbullying, sexting, drugs, or other possible dangers.
How To Monitor Your Child’s Internet Usage
Monitor your child’s internet usage. But how? This was always the challenge. If you want to make sure your kids are safe from cyberbullies and online predators, most experts suggest monitoring their usage. But this can be very time consuming and feel like an invasion of privacy for your kids if you are constantly having to read their texts, email, and social media accounts.
Bark solves the problem. Bark has proprietary technology that intelligently analyzes your child’s social activity behind the scenes. This means you don’t have to spend all your time reading through all their private communications. Bark uses data science and machine learning. It is far more accurate than just looking for keywords.
Bark Opens Family Internet Safety Communication
Bark knows that these issues are new for us and helps open the door for internet safety communication. It is great time to discuss topics like bullying, what’s inappropriate, and what to do. This approach helps to build trust and opens the dialog with your family around internet safety. Bark provides suggestions on how to talk to your children about internet safety before something happens AND if a danger is detected.
Bark uses advanced technology to notify parents when potential issues are detected and not just that, Bark provides recommended actions on how to deal with issues! I love this feature because this is all so new, we parents could use expert advice. I mean, what do we do when we find out about cyberbullying? Bark gives you advice and resources to pursue that are specific to the type of alert you receive.
Family Internet Safety & Possible Dangers
You not be familiar with internet safety and what dangers lurk. You may think that your kids are young enough not to worry internet safety yet. But whether your kids are 7 or 17, there are real dangers for kids on social media, email, and who have cell phones. Bark watches for alerts you about cyberbullying, internet predators, depression, suicidal thoughts, and sexting. All scary stuff! Bark even alerted one dad that his teen was buying drugs.
Ensure Your Family Internet Safety
Bark is a simple solution for opening communication about family internet safety and a great tool for staying altered to any dangers without having to encroach on your child’s privacy. You can find out more or sign up for a free trial of the service (only $9 per month for the family after the trial is over) at bark.us
I really think you will love this easy to use family internet safety software. It is amazing great to have tools like this in arsenal when it comes to tackling the unfamiliar ground of raising kids in a digital world! Did you know that all of these internet dangers were present? Do you think the Bark family internet safety software could help your family?
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Wendi Black says
I have never heard of this sounds very interesting here is one of the qualities
Sends you and your child alerts about possible issues
Lynn S. says
Bark could beneficial for my Aspie son.
Tiffany S says
I learned that bark monitors your childs account and sends an alert when there is a potential danger.
Gabrielle Compolongo says
I learned that Bark catches Cyber Bullying. That is amazing and very helpful these days!
Char says
I learned that this helps stop bullying. This would be great in the school I work for, thank you
latanya says
Doesn’t interfere with safe behaviors
Elle says
I learned that Bark is very easy to install and only takes a few minutes.
Jenny Willis says
It helps stop bullying.
Alexandra H says
Bark only sends alerts for potentially dangerous activities. Very useful for these days, when privacy is so precious, but social media can be so dangerous.
jeremy mclaughlin says
I learned that Bark can help stop bullying
Helen says
This seems to be an intuitive program that can provide parents with peace of mind while not alienating their kids.
Thomas Chappell says
I learned that keeping my kids safe online could be time consuming and that bark helps cut that out.
Natalie says
I learned that Bark provides recommended actions on how to deal with issues.
lissa crane says
I liked & learned many things about Bark, but what I am most excited about is definitely the feature that immediately alerts you on your iphone, so you can do something about it right away!
Weston McDonal says
I had never heard of this service but I really like the alert aspect of it.
Wendy Forbes says
I learned that Bark uses advanced technology to notify parents when potential issues are detected, without parents reading through all of their child’s online activities.
Jacob says
I learned suicide is the third leading cause of death for teens and young adults. This is staggering.
Ellie Wright says
I learned that it Doesn’t interfere with safe behaviors.
Ivan McKinnon says
Bark notified parents of potential dangers in their child’s online activity.
christina moore says
I like that Bark uses advanced technology to notify parents when potential issues are detected,
Margaret Smith says
I learned that Bark keeps my kids safe online by monitoring their devices and keeping alert to certain words, threats or bulling and notifies the parents.
Rita A says
Bark Doesn’t interfere with safe behaviors! No interuptions
pu ye says
I learned that bark monitors your childs account and sends an alert when there is a potential danger.
Jennifer Pellicone says
I learned this is a system every child should have. It’s very hard to keep track of what our kids see and do. And to send alerts…wonderful.
Debbie F says
I learned that it uses data science and machine learning, and is far more accurate than just looking for keywords.
pretty cool. 🙂
thanks!
John S says
I learned that Bark is easy to install and saves parents time and frustration by helping keep our kids safe online.
Steve Weber says
I learned that Bark catches Cyber Bullying.
Tiffany Seybold says
I learned that Bark doesn’t interfere with safe behaviors
Suzanne says
Bark sends alerts
Kelly D says
I learned that Bark sends you and your child alerts about possible issues.
Lauren P says
I learned that it helps stop bullying. It’s sad we need that 🙁
Laura says
I learned that Bark can help keep your children safe from predators when online.
shannon fowler says
to be honest I had never heard of it, but it’s perfect for recommending to some patients’ parents. I love how they have recommendations with how to deal with possible things too.
elizabeth p says
I learned it sends an alert when there is a potential danger. So cool!
Rose Reeder says
Exposes you to activity you don’t need or want to see. Alerts to a potential danger, helps with safety of children.
Kimberly Harrison says
I learned that this is a good tool for every household with children, to be able to monitor their activity online, etc. Very helpful.
Shannon says
Bark uses advanced technology to notify parents when potential issues are detected, without parents reading through all of their child’s online activities. I love that it doesn’t invade their privacy but still is like a watchdog to protect them.
Candace Galan-Calderon says
Bark will notify parents of any suspicious activity but without the parent having to go through all their activities themselves.
chris z says
i like that it helps stop bullying
Jennifer Reed says
I learned that Bark supports major social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instagram, Google+), Gmail, and iOS and Android text messaging.
Laurie says
This looks like a very useful tool to help monitor your child’s internet activities on the phone and computer. Thank you for sharing!
Ashley C says
I learned that it can monitor all social media accounts and text messaging! That is incredible!
RICHARD SKUSE says
helps keep your children safe from cyberbullying and online predators.
Tammy S says
This is Awesome! I love that it works across so many social platforms. I also like that Bark alerts you about risky app installs on your child’s device. Which would be great to know!
Jessica Herring says
I learned that Bark helps protect my children online!
Darlene Comeaux says
Bark will let me know things about my children’s online activities, they would never let me know.
Michelle S. says
I learned that it costs $9 per month and this will cover all the children in the family.
Walter Van Tine says
Love to own this!
Stephen D says
I learned that Bark lets parents monitor their kid’s online activity for threats, without invading their privacy. Pretty cool.
Lisa says
I learned that this app is a middle ground between parents monitoring their kids and kids still having privacy online.
Sandy Cain says
I learned that BARK saves you the trouble of going through all your chidrens’ online activities for safety. It notifies you automatically when there’s a problem!
Dave T says
Interesting idea. Probably more positives than negatives.
marc woronoff says
like
Angela A Simmons says
Bark uses advanced technology to notify parents when potential issues are detected
veronica says
It’s easily installed.
Denise Osborn says
This analyzes your child”s activities on social sites behind the scenes and alerts the parents. Great idea
velder dixon says
easily installed
Angela Saver says
I learned that Bark does not interfere with safe behaviors & that Bark sends you and your child alerts about possible issues! I also learned that children are open to Bark because it does not give parents the ability to read everything they are doing.
David Heath says
I learned that this helps stop bullying
Linda Poplees says
I like the fact that it Provides recommended actions on how to deal with issues.
Tracie Vandermeulen says
I like that you can be notified of potential problems
Jennifer Rote says
I learned that Bark helps stop Cyber Bullying.
Jennifer Tilson says
I learned that Bark is only $9 a month and covers an unlimited amount of children in your family.
Birdiebee says
I learned Bark uses advanced technology to notify parents when potential issues are detected.
Heather Manu says
I learned that this now only brings awareness of activity to parents, but also sends alerts to the child too.
kathy Person says
Sending alerts isgreat
Dawn Monroe says
I learned that it’s much more accurate then keyword searches and they alert both you and the child.
Maria C. says
LOve that Bark will help us parent to monitor or have an access to our child’s online activity which for me is very important esp now a days
Fiona N says
I learned that Bark supports major social networking sites and alerts about risky app installs on the child’s device
Pauline Linares says
It searches for possible danger issues & provides alerts!
Maryann Royster says
Bark moniters you child’s online activities and notifies when kid tries to acess what there not sapposed to.
Lyndsey R. says
I learned that Bark will monitor and send me texts of potentially dangerous activity.
Jenny S says
I love that Bark supports ALL the apps kids are into.
Carolyn Daley says
I learned that Bark alerts parents of potential threats and offers recommendations on how to approach an issue.
Danielle Marie says
i learned it Doesn’t interfere with safe behaviors. and is only $9 a month which is a steal!
Autumn B says
I learned that I don’t have to “creep” on my child’s every move but can still “supervise” using this tool, what a great idea!
Keeley Sullivan says
It alerts parents to potential bullying.
Cheryl B says
I like the fact that Bark monitors my children accounts and informs when my child accesses a sites don’t want them to.
Rosanne says
It sends you texts if it monitors any suspicious activity of your children online.
Pam Flynn says
Intelligently analyzes your child’s social activity behind the scenes. Amazing
Jammie says
I learned it supports the major social media networks, which is a plus. My daughter is always on social media, this is something I would be very interested in.
Rachel Odolski says
I learned all the benefits of using Bark and will sign up!
Kim Davis says
I learned it is easy to install and protects my child,
aubrey says
I learned it sends you and your child alerts about possible issues online.
Buddy Garrett says
I learned that Bark can help stop bullying.
Breanne says
I learned that you can get a month free.
Nannypanpan says
I learned it is a flat rate for unlimited children
Laurie Emerson says
I learned that it is easy to install and only takes minutes.
Thomas Murphy says
I learned there technology monitors their accounts around the clock, and sends you text/email alerts to potentially dangerous activity.
Rajee Pandi says
Exposes you to activity you don’t need or want to see