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Hands up if you’ve read the Terms & Conditions when you signed up for a social media account (or anything else online for that matter!)?

The Children’s Commissioner tested social media platforms’ terms & conditions out on children and none of the kids they asked understood them. Did you know that:

“Snapchat can publically display or sell any content young person puts on Live or Local Snapchat, meaning they can use a young person’s face and voice in any way, how Instagram can read a user’s Direct Messages and how all companies collect a range of person information including how long you spend on certain pages, where you are and who is in your phone book. They remind children that YouTube is owned by Google, so if you create a YouTube account, your data will be collected by Google and linked to other information Google has about you.” (childrenscommissioner.gov.uk)

Thankfully, the Children’s Commissioner has published handy versions for us so we can better understand what we’re all signing up to. If you’re a parent, you could use these to discuss them with your children.

We don’t think parents should ban kids from using social media. We do think children (and everyone else) should properly understand what they’re signing up to.

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Brighton5's Daisy Cresswell with BBC Sussex presenter Danny PikeBrighton5 founder Daisy Cresswell was a guest on BBC Sussex this morning talking to presenter Danny Pike about  screen time,  parenting and how social media companies need to change. Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield has today written an open letter to social media organisations about this very issue,

She discussed how Brighton5 is teaching children how social media platforms work and how they are designed (with Vegas style gaming techniques). Banning children isn’t necessarily the answer. Let’s start a conversation with our teens and arm them with knowledge.

Have a listen to a clip here!

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Running a Crowdfunder has been all-consuming. It’s meant putting everything else on hold to rally round and badger people for money and help with getting the word out. We’ve been so humbled by the way everyone has pitched in and got involved. But thankfully it was all worth it – last night we reached our target! This means that we have the funds to get going with our project, working with teens and local schools and colleges. Watch this space!

So if you donated, shared our posts, sent us a supportive message, told friends and family about us… a huge thank you. Your support made this happen.

From Daisy, Tayler, Jane and the teens x

Brighton5 teens in Brighton

Brighton5 teens on Brighton beach.

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Our Brighton5 Crowdfunder ends at 2 minutes to midnight tonight (Sunday 18th November) and it’s all-or-nothing. So this is a last call to arms! A plea to help us get the message out there and find our final backers to get us over the line and hit our target.

If you could spend just 10 minutes today, calling, texting and WhatsApping your friends, you could post a link to the Brighton5 Crowdfunder on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and LinkedIn telling all your lovely friends and followers why they should back our project, that would be AMAZING. We’re so close! THANK YOU from all of us at Brighton5! ❤️