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The most important settings and actions for privacy on Ask.fm:ġ. While there is no such thing as a “Private Profile”, the following privacy settings will reduce the chance that someone could randomly find your profile. That’s because these people made their Ask.fm profile link available on another social media profile, or were shown in the “Stream” of Ask.fm activity. Note that I was able to view Ask.fm profiles of people I don’t know. The stream shows recent Ask.fm activity, and the popular page features popular accounts. These may not be from their friends, but there is plenty of racy stuff to be found on the “Stream” and “Popular” pages, which are only available to Ask.fm users. So your teen may or may not be experiencing any negative encounters.īut this doesn’t mean that your teen won’t encounter inappropriate questions and answers. On the profiles I’ve visited (by randomly clicking on profiles that appear at the bottom of the Ask.fm home page, and from kids who have ask.fm links in their Instagram profiles) most questions were fairly innocent. There have been many reports of cyberbullying, and the nature of the anonymity makes it easy to say things that you might not say to someone in person. As a parent you know your kids best and set the rules you are comfortable with. If you read some of the articles on the web and say “no way!” that is totally understandable! These are simply suggestions for settings to use if you should decide it’s okay for your teen to continue with Ask.fm. I wanted to offer some advice to parents whose teens already use this service. This isn’t an article warning of the dangers of using Ask.fm you can find that online already.
ASKFM APP INFORMATION ANDROID
There is also a corresponding app for Apple and Android devices. I first wrote about Ask.fm last May but wanted to revisit, as it is still a popular site among teens. Ask.fm is a web site where you create a profile and invite anyone in the known universe (not just other ask.fm users) to ask you a question.