PR NEWSWIRE - Grom Social, a social media platform and original content provider of entertainment for kids unveiled new features in its app that allow schools, teachers, classrooms, and students to connect in a safe forum overseen by educators. The new program represents the company's latest foray into the classroom to keep kids safe online.
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Grom Social Unveils New Program to Promote Digital Safety for Kids
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Grom Social Has Blossomed Into an Impressive Social Media Platform
ENTREPRENEUR - June 16 - Grom Social is a youth-oriented social platform that provides children with a safe space to enter and explore the world of social media. It was founded by Zach Marks in 2013, who was inspired by his own early experiences with social media. Marks put together a social media entertainment platform offering a curated selection of kid-friendly shows, a messaging service, photo, and video editing, and an expansive network of users to share and receive each other's content. Grom Social would also monitor chats at all times. Since 2015, Grom Social has signed up ~25M kids and parents across its platforms.
by Mitchell Yu
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Groom Social: Safe Social Network For Kids
FLORIDA TODAY - July 8 - Zach Marks (13 years old) is the brains and creative genius behind Grom Social, a networking site for kids. About a year-and-a-half after launching, the site has ~70K members in 199 countries. Grom Social has a staff of 16 and a board of advisers. The new president is the former COO of Victoria’s Secret. Animated characters deliver positive messages on the site. Also, live 24-7 monitoring means site members will get real-time feedback about things like why it’s bad to post their address or other personal information online.
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Eleven Year Old Launches Safe Social Network For Kids
PR NEWSWIRE - Jan 14 - Zach Marks with an I.Q. of 147, who has been nominated for inventor of the year by the Florida Inventors Society, created his own social network GromSocial after being banned from Facebook by his father for the second time. Parental approval is an integral part of the site. Today, there are ~25K plus visitors to the site daily coming from China, India, Indonesia, Australia, Russia, Europe and the US. Visitors are quickly converted into "Gromers" a term coined on the site by kids after a few short visits. The word Grom is an Australian slang term for a young surfer which Zach translated into "a promising young kid, who is quick to learn".
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