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Polybuzz and children’s safety
Polybuzz has been flagged as potentially unsafe for children due to its content and lack of parental controls. The app is designed with safety in mind, offering graded modes for different age groups, but it has been criticized for allowing underage users to bypass these safety features. The app’s content is heavily skewed towards relationship bots, romantic scenarios, and sexualized encounters, which can be inappropriate for children. Additionally, Polybuzz lacks effective age verification and parental controls, raising concerns about the safety of its content for younger users. Parents are advised to exercise caution and consider alternative, safer AI chat platforms for their children.

Helpful Information

Barnardo’s St Helens Resilience Service

Offering emotional wellbeing and resilience support to all secondary-aged children and young people.

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Young Minds

This website is full of advice and information to give young people the tools to look after their mental health. Young Minds empowers parents to be the best support they can be to the young people in their lives. And we give young people the space and confidence to get their voices heard and change the world we live in. Together, we can create a world where no young person feels alone with their mental health.

www.youngminds.org.uk

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