Pinterest tends to fly under the radar. Unlike Instagram or TikTok, it has never attracted the same level of public concern, it’s older, it’s built around image collections, and most parents consider it benign, if they think about it at all.
That perception is the problem. The White Hatter, a Canadian digital safety organisation, published a blog post recently after supporting two families whose children had shared intimate images via Pinterest’s direct messaging feature. In both cases, the parents had no idea the platform had a messaging function.
Here’s a short, practical read:
https://www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/what-parents-didn-t-know-about-pinterest-matters-for-all-caregivers
