Vora
Vora is a dieting app that focuses on enabling users to track their fasts. While not designed to harm, it has unfortunately become popular with people who have eating disorders. The app has a social media feature that connects the user with other fasters by creating profiles. Through the Vora Facebook page, users encourage each other to extend their fasts. Again, this can easily be used negatively. There are plenty of “pro-ana” (anorexia) users on social media, and Vora has become a tool for them to encourage each other in a NEGATIVE way – to keep up their disorder. Basically – teens and tweens do NOT need tobe fasting – so if your kid has this app, it’s a HUGE red flag!
Various “Hiding” Apps
I’ve mentioned these before, but since there are a variety, and you have to look hard for them, I think it bears repeating that there are always new apps coming out that are specifically designed to hide thing kids don’t want parents to see. They have names like Private Photo (Calculator%), Gallery Lock Lite, Best Secret Folder, and Keep Safe, and they appear with an innocent-looking icon like a calculator. SO yeah – make sure your kid’s calculator app is ACTUALLY a calculator. Also, check ut their download history and their settings, parents!
Those are the newest and ugliest apps out there so far this year, so check those kiddos’ phones, tablets, and computers, moms and dads! It’s OUR job to keep them safe, and in this digital age, it’s more critcal than EVER.
