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Re:Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety? by arzmir on Thursday April 14, 2022 @11:20AM (#31028101)
> We have a WhatsApp group where they can ask whether something is dodgy. They don't use it for chitchat, so anything that comes through, I treat urgently.

I really like that idea.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety? by acwan93 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:08PM (#31028842)
Until an older relative uses that same group for something completely unrelated.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety? by BrandoElFollito on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:54PM (#31029616)
This actually happened to me and I gave up. I support them through every channel now and the family whatsapp chat is a messy, happy heap of everything.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety? by blowski on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:19PM (#31031990)
We have a separate chat group for that. It doesn’t work perfectly but it does work well enough.
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