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Bought a Chromebook for my 11 year old daughter

  • 10-11-2020 1:52pm
    #1
    arrowman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭


    I have got my soon-to-be 11 year old daughter a Chromebook.

    Since I have been working more from home she has taken an interest in tricking about with my work laptop practicing her typing. She also has been hinting heavily that she wanted an iPhone or at a minimum an iPod that she could use to look at YouTube and use Google etc.

    I though a cheap laptop would be a better compromise as it is less portable and she is less likely to be stuck with her nose in it at the dinner table etc like most older kids (and older adults sometimes!!)

    Anyway with the Chromebook you have access to the Android app PlayStore but before I give it to her as a present I wanted to have a few useful apps downloaded on it - when it boots up at the moment it has nothing but the Chrome browser on it.

    I am looking for suggestions on the best apps to install on it for an 11 year old.

    BTW her friends seemingly all are using TicTok and I have been pushing back on letting her near that for another while - I thought that was for 16+ users??


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Posting the same thread in multiple places is frowned upon, you'd think a poster reg'd as long as you would be aware...
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058130732


    A chromebook isnt an android device, it just emulates android to a certain extent. Some apps will be fine, others won't like the display of the CB at all. Also if its not touch enabled then the user experience can be pure trash.

    I'd expect rather rapid pressure to get a phone, hard to perfect your duckface selfie with a laptop form factor. From the parenting perspective you've lost the battle to keep the worst of the net from the child as long as one parent in the class doesn't take it seriously. There'll always be that parent.


  • #3
    arrowman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 124 ✭✭arrowman


    Thanks for the reply and the rap on the knuckles re the double post...!
    It can be hard to know where on the board to put a question if it crosses a number of areas.

    Thanks for your reply re the Chromebook. I had suspected that a Chromebook would not give the same user experience as a mobile device but I was just trying to "plug the gap" until she gets to secondary school age and then a phone will be on the cards then. I may be swimming against the tide on this one but she will spend enough of her life with mobile devices - I just want to ease her (and myself) in gently


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