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Marco Polo Video Walkie Talkie combines the personal nature of video chatting with the convenience of walkie-talkies. The Marco Polo app is available in both the App Store and the Google Play Store and is rated for everyone. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements. This app can be safe for kids with parental supervision.
What is Marco Polo - Stay in Touch?
Marco Polo Video Walkie Talkie combines the personal nature of video chatting with the convenience of walkie-talkies, for a novel way to communicate and connect with friends and family via multimedia messaging.
The Marco Polo app is available in both the App Store and the Google Play Store and is rated for everyone. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements.
The app is simple to use; users tap a button to record, send it to the person or group chat on the other end, they watch the video as soon as they can, and respond with their own quick recording.
Marco Polo offers a variety of filters to enhance videos, and is a unique way to keep in touch with friends, family, or extended social groups.
User reviews cite the personal nature of communication that does not require the immediate attention that a live video chat on FaceTime or Skype does.
Is Marco Polo - Stay in Touch safe for my kids?
Marco Polo is safe for kids, but because it is a messaging app, it can potentially be used to send inappropriate content. As with similar apps, the standards of appropriate content and communication within the Marco Polo app vary based on who is using it.
It's important to note that Marco Polo is not a public forum and users choose whom they begin a conversation with, so it's possible to maintain a level of parental control by directly approving your child’s contacts. So long as contact is restricted to known friends and family members, using the Marco Polo app should be considered safe for children and teens.
Messages sent and received do not disappear from the conversation, which is useful for going back and reviewing messages, but it does invite the risk of inappropriate or mistakenly sent content to remain available in the conversation history for potential misuse.
Parents can use this app as an opportunity to discuss appropriate internet content and how quickly mistakes can spread online.
This is also a good opportunity to set agreed-upon standards of what is and isn’t appropriate to share publicly and what your household rules are for internet usage.
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