Popular Kik app offers teenagers, predators anonymity

AUSTIN (KXAN) — When your child opens up a social media app on their smartphones, who are they really chatting with? Concerns over the chatting app ‘Kik’ surfaced after a Cedar Park man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl he met and chatted with on the app.
Kik was founded in 2009 at the University of Waterloo near Toronto, Canada. According to the app’s website, 300 million people have signed up for Kik in 230 countries worldwid