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What apps do you see your children using most often on their smartphone? How do they use a smartphone to maintain/develop/establish friendships with peers?
My seventeen-year-old just sat down on the couch next to me, and these are her favorite apps:
USAA -- banking
YNAB -- budgeting
CNN -- news
Powerschool -- keeping track of her grades
Tumblr -- entertainment and education (Studyblr)
Youtube -- entertainment and education
Netflix -- entertainment
Spotify -- music
8tracks -- music
Snapchat -- communication
In addition, she uses the phone's native email and calendar apps. We all use Google calendar to keep track of our family's comings and goings, so this makes it easy to coordinate our schedules.
For maintaining relationships with peers, she says her friends text most often, but they also like Snapchat. Although she does have an account with each, she's not a fan of Facebook or Twitter and has not installed them on her phone.
They were all home for Christmas. Here is what they used most as we visited, chatted, ran errands...
Pandora. (music)
Snapchat. (keeping updated with friends and family)
Twitter. (keeping updated with friends and news)
Waze. (map and traffic as we ran around town)
Netflix. (movies)
Expedia. (making travel plans for next year)
Their banking apps. (checking their money)
Instagram. (sharing pics with friends)
A weather app. (checking weather conditions for travel to friends)
Reddit. (news and funnies)
Their local sports team apps. (for talking sports with family and friends)
Email. (communication - mostly for their jobs)
Texting app. (communication with friends and family)
Facetime. (communication with their significant others - gotta see the face! )
YouTube. (entertainment)
Spotify - music
Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/Snapchat - communication/entertainment
Groupme - communication
FaceTime/House Party - communication
Mobile banking to deposit checks/check balances/keep track of purchases etc.
YouTube/Netflix - entertainment
Infinite Campus - check grades
CNN - news
ESPN/NFL/etc - sports
Google Maps - navigation
FaceBook
Spotify
Youtube
Netflix
The Room (game)
Vlogger Go Viral (game)
Monster Super League (game)
Neko Atsume (game)
My Singing Monsters (game)
Japanese language learning apps
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