These Snapchat Filters May Give Your Kids Nightmares

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Social media giant Snapchat is one of the most popular apps at the moment.

Like Instagram, Snapchat allows you to use filters on your posts but there are a few in particular that are getting a bit of viral reaction as some parents have been using it to scare their kids.

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All in good viral fun right? Well, it's not October yet but the month is rapidly approaching and so is Halloween. This filter that makes creepy and terrifying faces and noises when you open your mouth and is perfect for the spooky season.

That being said, some parents have been using the filters to prank their kids and the result, well, it's sheer terror.

In some of the videos below, you can see that the parents are having a bit of fun with the app at the expense of their kids.

It's all fun and games until you have to stay up with them at night because they're scared the monster in the phone is going to jump out and get them. Just know, you did it to yourselves.

On the upside, if you want to prevent your little ones from becoming tech zombies who stare at nothing but a computer/mobile device, you can always tell them stories about the ghosts or boogeymen that lurk in their phones and follow it up with one of the prime examples below.

Check out these kids getting scared by the Snapchat filters below.