Houseparty (Rated 12+, Group Video Chat)

App store description: Houseparty is the face-to-face social network where you can connect with the people you care about most. The app makes connecting face to face effortless, alerting you when your friends are “in the house” and ready to chat so you can

jump right into the conversation. The same goes for you opening the app! Your friends will know you’re in the app and ready to chat, so they can join you (…because rejected calls are so last year). Houseparty is truly the next best thing to hanging out in person. See your friends more often on Houseparty.

Problems

People, maybe people your child does not know, can join your child’s group video chat without permission if the chat group is not locked. When a user is in a Houseparty group chat, a connection from one of the in-chat members can choose to join the group, even though they are not connected or known to the other users. Houseparty does give you the option to lock your conversations. When a conversation is locked, everyone is notified that the user has locked the