Call SpongeBob SquarePants 2018 App
This week, a year-old hoax about This SpongeBob SquarePants app being dangerous for children has been doing the rounds on Facebook again, despite having been debunked back then, and again now. I've spent an hour in her company today doing just that. In short: yes, the hoax is a hoax. But the app's developer could be doing more to ensure parents feel at ease with their children using the app. Next, in-app ads. If you download Call SpongeBob SquarePants 2018 for free, it'll display banner ads at the top of the screen. They're generally ads for other apps: Hotels.com, Google and (in a curveball) the Department for Work and Pensions all appeared while I was using it today. Usually, tapping on a banner ad takes you to its download page on the app store. Meanwhile, the app also offers in return for watching video ads for other apps: The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Knights & Dragons, Total Domination Reborn, Battle Camp and Monster Legends for example. But the hoax is a reminder that as parents, we also have responsibilities to be aware of what apps our kids are using and how they work – from first-hand experience. For now, I would steer my children to other apps rather than this app, but that's based on testing it out for myself, rather than believing hysterical ALL-CAPS warnings posted on Facebook. i went to the Android application package to get the app and downloaded for free, After it loading, I Tapped it. At first it will seem like a shitty and poorly designed app with a screen shot of the app icon on the top and a copy-pasted phone options like you would see on a regular phone but the text was in a different language one the bottom. Here were things take a turn for the worst. After a couple of adds you will be taken to the other menu as described and you will hear a voice of someone with an Irish accent and the voice has been slowed down to give a demonic feel to the voice (or a voice that sounds similar to Jack Nicholson's joker's voice) and the man will say. "Hi kids, I'm your new friend Happy Slappy, whatever you want me to be called.
"You see I want to play with you kiddo, maybe we could perform some fun games together.
"What's this hogwash? You look afraid. Is it this knife in my whirly twirly hands? Making you a little nervous ha?
"That's all right 'cause this is knife is gonna improve your look when it's sticking right out of you"
i Deleted the App and had a nightmare about it, What we hope people take away from this is you should be looking at all the things you load on your phone and share with your kids. It's quite easy to get the illusion you are talking to a real person, but it's physically impossible to have someone behind the app, One way to identify a fake warning is that it does not include links that back up the story, according to a blog post by Sophos.
A fake warning also does not offer additional advice beyond uninstalling this app, Since When The Post on Facebook came out, Then on March 2018, It haves over 1.8K Comments and 21K Likes, So. Do Not Play This App.
Originally on Geoshea's Lost Episodes Wiki
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