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even my therapist knows about this app that my parents forced me to download. i feel like i’m on a leash. if they get alerts from anything even my friends say that i don’t , it alerts them. it’s come to the point where it’s july and i haven’t hung out with ANYBODY all summer because i’m distancing myself from my friends since i don’t want my parents to argue with me about what they say. i feel so alone and my parents do not care. i’m begging you not to get this for your child. i understand wanting safety but this will make your kid feel anything but comfort. also, prents can set curfew limits on their child phone so it literally stops working. i didn’t know it was bark causing this so i spent hours on the phone with at&t trying to figure out the problem. HOURS. and when my parents told me it was bark they just laughed it off like it was funny that i felt so much stress. on top of that, i spent two weeks away from my family and traveled to a part of the country with a different time zone. i was two hours behind my family that stayed home. however, this app does not adjust to time zones so i had to stop using my phone at like 8pm. i’m a teenager, why should i have such little freedom when i already cant do or say anything on this phone that’ll alert my parents? when i tried talking to my parents about readjusting my curfew while i was out of town my dad literally just laughed at me. i felt and still feel so powerless over MY life.

This app goes to far, it send parents everything even the little things that don’t matter. Like as pre-teens and teen, we sometimes will joke with our friends like call them dumb or an idiot, but at this age we know we’re joking and so do they. But it sends those messages to parents even tho there not a big deal. It will invade to much privacy even if it’s not something big. Also this app has broken my friends phones including me. Mine would freeze and do random things and basically like broke it. It got so annoying. The weirdest part, is it would freeze and not let me get on the bark app. For my friend, she couldn’t do like anything it would always say she has no internet connection, and the reason her parents got it for her is because she’s never had social media before and she really wanted it. But it wouldn’t work when she got social media because there “was no internet connection” this app is the worst thing ever. It goes to far, sends like EVERYTHING, and will break phones. Like I get it, if u gave the app to like a young kid like 9 and under, that makes sense because parents should know what’s going on on a young kids phone/iPad. But when your a pree-teen or a teen, you need some privacy cause your older. And most of them aren't even doing anything bad, it’s the fact that is app invalids privacy that’s not even a big deal.

I believe my parents had a good reason for being concerned and wanting an app like this on my phone but it’s way too restrictive it alerted my dad because I watched a TikTok that had the word high in it and reported it as drugs and when I told my friends about this app some of them told me they didn’t want me texting or calling them till I had this app off my phone because they are worried that they might tell me something personal and the app will alert my dad and say it’s inappropriate and then my dad would know their secrets this really annoys me because I’m glad to be there for my friends and be there to listen to them whenever they have problems but they are texting ME to tell me that stuff not my parents it’s only been a few days but I feel trapped and my friendships are suffering because of this so I strongly advise that if you are a parent and thinking about getting this for your kid please don’t you may think it’s helping your kid but its really not you can tell your kids that you doing this because you love them and you want them to be safe but trust me we don’t see it that way we see it as you watching our every move and not caring about how we feel about I would have much rather have like weekly phone checks than this so you should sit down with your kid at talk to them instead of forcing this and other apps like it onto them