Viddy

Has your tween been talking about Viddy? Viddy is growing steadily in popularity with about 16 million users. Many people refer to Viddy as a video version of Instagram.  It is the number 2 free iOS app at the App store. 

Viddy is a beautiful way to take video and use filters to enhance, beautify and add music to your videos and share them around the world. Videos are limited to 15 seconds. Viddy is a free application you download on your smartphone, iPad or iPod Touch and then sign up through Facebook, Twitter or email. After you have configured your video you can share it on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Tumblr. Because these third party services are integrated into the service to give users a fuller experience, users need to provide Viddy with your login information. Viddy also states it does not want to collect any personal information from any children under the age of 13 years old. 

If parents want to block this application from your tween's smartphone, parents can use My Mobile Watchdog monitoring application that blocks applications and websites in addition to other monitoring features for cell phones.My Mobile Watchdog