Closed group only administrators can invite others. For more information about the group types, click? Click Start Chat.
To go to the newest unread message in a chat, click New Messages. Add more people to the group chat. In a group chat, in the top right of the screen, click. To add a contact to the group chat, tap a contact. Click Invite. Assign administrator privileges to a group chat participant.
At the top of the chat screen, click the down arrow beside the name of the participant. Select Add Administrator. Add a profile picture to a group chat. To add a profile picture, you must be a chat administrator. In the groups list, click the default profile picture. Click Edit Picture.
Browse to and select a picture. The supported file types are. Click Save Picture. Add a picture or file to a group chat. Timed messages: These timed messages are similar to Snapchat messages in that you can set how long someone can view the message for. Messages can be timed to last for 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 or 25 seconds and after that they cannot be viewed using the app.
However the message can be saved by taking a screenshot. News feeds: The news feed is a scrolling list that allows users to quickly and easily see what their friends have been getting up. BBM users must be above the age of 13 to use the service. This means that BBM can use the content you send in any way they please. BBM also builds a profile on you, as Google does, to provide you with tailored advertising based on your location, interests and even your mobile phone network.
Worried about something you have seen online or concerned about your child? Childline and the National Parents Council Primary offer free advice and support service. Childline is a support service for young people up to the age of There is a 24hr telephone, online and mobile phone texting service. Sometimes you might unwittingly stumble across illegal online content like child abuse imagery.
Always remember: you can report it and get it removed using Hotline. More on illegal content. Make a report. See more of what we found here. So what does all of this mean for international development practitioners?
Whatever we might think of the interface, or features, young Indonesians are using it so we need to know how to use it, too. Channels are easy to create and can be used as communities of practice or homes for topical content jobs, education, training for young people; the fact that BBM allows paid ads means we can target the demographic group that interests us most with the content we post.
John: This seems like a great example of network effects , where the value of a product increases with the number of people using it. It also shows how difficult it is to leave a platform unless your entire network makes a move. Devices, like BlackBerrys, do not enjoy the same protections of network effects because you can maintain your BBM contacts on any device—thus why barely anyone uses them anymore.
As international development practitioners, we are much more effective when we work to understand local ecosystems via Digital Insights and then deploy our interventions within those ecosystems.
There are some examples of BBM being used for social good; Canada developed a missing child service called Milk Carton 2. Interested in hearing more about other the other apps we tested in App-a-Thon ? Subscribe now to receive a weekly digest of our newest blogs sent directly to your inbox! DAI works on the frontlines of international development.
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