Children continuously adopt new apps and use them to communicate. In the United States, popular messaging apps in 2017 included video messaging apps (FireChat and Marco Polo), Snapchat, Instagram, and even Yubo (Krischer, 2017). Yubo (formerly known as Yellow) has been dubbed “Tinder for children.” Tinder, while a dating app, is primarily known as a “hook up” app, which facilitates connections between people who largely are seeking casual sexual encounters. Like Tinder, with Yubo, children swipe right to connect (or become friends) with another child or left if they do not want to become friends. The app connects children to strangers within their geographic location, facilitates communication with these strangers, and enables the arrangement of in person meetings. Because age verification does not exist on this site, adult predators can create fake profiles, and use the site to contact and ultimately lure children. This practice by online predators is not unique to this app, it is common on most websites, chat rooms, messaging apps, video apps, and social media platforms used by children. For this assignment, find a popular messaging app in your country.
What are the features of this app?
Who commonly uses the app (i.e., adults, children or both)? For what reasons?
Has this app been used in your country by perpetrators of interpersonal cybercrime? Please justify your response. If you answered yes, please provide a real-life case where this occurred.
In what ways can the app be used to conduct an interpersonal cybercrime a victim?
What, if anything, can be done to prevent the use of the app to commit interpersonal cybercrime?
If you need to explain more the maximum word count is 1,000 words.
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