Category — Digital Citizenship
Autistic Kids and Online Safety: How You Can Support Your Child
Note: We use both “autistic kid” and “kid with autism” throughout this blog post to honor the fact that different individuals prefer to be referred to differently. When you have a child with autism, you undoubtedly have an awesome child. Autistic kids each have unique...
Bark Announces New Screen Time and Web Filtering Features
The Bark Team is thrilled to announce the launch of two brand new features — screen time management and web filtering! Over the last few years, families have expressed the need for an all-in-one solution to help protect their kids online. And while there are multiple...
Safer Internet Day: How to Talk to Your Kids About Digital Citizenship
Today is Safer Internet Day, and Bark is proud to join people and organizations around the world in promoting the safe and positive use of digital technologies among children, tweens, and teens. In honor of this year’s theme, “Together for a better internet," we’ve...
Teaching Internet Safety: What You Need to Know Before Your Kids Are Online
Is your 8-year-old more into giving their dog a makeover than Snapchatting their friends? Are they more likely to read a book about dinosaurs than look at stegosaurus hashtags on Instagram? When your child is still too young to have a cellphone or open up a social...
CGI Influencers — The Instagram Trend You Might Not Know About
Learn about the latest Instagram updates here.On December 4, 2019, a computer-generated persona named Kenna began a product development internship at the popular makeup brand Essence Cosmetics. A photo of herself, along with the caption “First day at work, yay,” was...
5 Tech Skills That Are Now Life Skills
While we don’t have the hoverboards or flying cars we were promised in Back to the Future, we are definitely living in the future. Technology is now a part of every childhood, and although it may seem like your kid mainly uses their phone to watch YouTube or make...
So You’ve Read Sloane’s Story — Here Are 9 Ways You Can Help
On December 13, our friend and colleague Sloane Ryan published her story about what happened when Bark’s Special Projects Team created an Instagram account for a fictitious 11-year-old girl. Within minutes of posting to the account, several men sent sexually explicit...
A Privacy and Security Guide to Bark
At Bark, we take your trust seriously, and we believe that you deserve complete transparency about how we’re securing your data and preserving your privacy. We’re committed to every aspect of your child’s online safety — whether it’s detecting digital dangers or...
How to Talk to Your Kids About Bark
It’s easy for parents to get how Bark can help keep their kids safe. But unfortunately, that doesn’t mean their kids will immediately understand the benefits of using our content monitoring, screen time management, and web filtering features. A family is a team, and...
Bark Testifies at Georgia Assembly Committee Hearing
Today, on behalf of Bark, our Chief Parent Officer Titania Jordan testified during the Committee Hearing on HR 553. Along with Ben Halpert of Savvy Cyber Kids, our testimony provided key facts and explained to the Georgia Assembly the urgent need for a House Study...
Here to Help, Here to Delight: Getting to Know the Bark Customer Support Team
**This post was updated on June 24, 2020** A tech company is only as successful as its customer support, and at Bark, we have the very best. They’re fluent in not only setting up Bark on Androids and iPhones, but also troubleshooting Snapchat, Gmail, Instagram,...