Use Verizon Familybase to Limit Cellular Data Use for your Kids
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel. Today I'm going to talk about the controls that Verizon offers under its Familybase product and I how I use it to restrict access for my kids. There are truly a bewildering array of options out there to limit Internet content and usage. I use a combination of things, but one of the best investments I make is spending $5 a month for Verizon's Familybase product. Almost every large cellular provider has a service like this and almost every one has a similar cost. I use it for one very simple purpose -- to limit the amount of cellular data my kids can use on a monthly basis. And of course, I didn't figure this out until AFTER I had a shocking cell phone bill (or 2). My kids use data-hungry apps like Netflix or YouTube. They didn't have a sense of how much data that would use initially and frankly, didn't really care since they weren't paying the bill. I really couldn't afford to hand...