Facebook Cleans Up
Well, I am sure you have heard: Facebook (#2 in the “axis of evil”) – under pressure from legislators (namely New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo) is cleaning up its act.
They are basically going to do 3 things:
You can read the full article here: Facebook to improve predator reporting system
Fine. Great steps. Bravo…
But this is NOT an excuse for parents to remain inactive on the issue of keeping their kids safe and knowing where they are and who they are talking to (online). One could look at this as a great step in prevention… but others could look at it as a prevailence of parents pointing the blame and forcing someone else to take responsibility for the actions that they should be taking themselves.
If Facebook is going to better monitor their users, why are parents monitoring their own little users?
While this is a great step to take, parents need to recognize this is just one step by one person… but it’s going to take many steps from the whole community to stop the problem. Parents need to monitor and control (to some extent) the online activity of their children…
Fortunately you have fantastic parental control monitoring software like PC Pandora to help!!
November 8th, 2007 at 6:06 am
I am not as worried about my college kids - both adults - making fools of themselves on Facebook as much as I am my minor child posting every lurid thought in her sieve-like brain on MySpace. I absolutely HATE MySpace. I mean, really…who HAS 549 friends in their network? I am lucky to be able to talk to my little sister in Kansas City twice a week. I don’t think I even have 549 enemies! But there she is. Smirking with a face that is like all the other snotnosed 16 year old narcissist society members. I blame Mary Kate and Ashley Olson. They invented the teenage girl smirk. You know, the lips slightly pursed, the eyes with their heavy goop of mascara upturned to look at you, silently saying, “What the FVCK do YOU want, A$$hole?”
Only the glass pane keeps me from shoving my hand through and slapping the smart alecky little punk.
Ahh, but thank goodness for PC Pandora. Now I can go everywhere she goes, I can be inside her rancid, drug enhanced pubescent brain, and see what the wretch sees. Not a pretty sight. Is this MY kid? Does she have a soul?
She works hard….in order to get her drug money, but alas, I read her IMs, which boasted of all the weed she was going to buy with her paycheck…and behold, very next day….she is signed up for a direct deposit account. And I am on the account! Heh. At least until she is 18. But the fact that she must now go through the extra effort to get any money out just galls her like nothing else.
I beat her to the mail box and got her debit card. I MIGHT let her use it under careful observation….we’ll see. To be continued.
November 8th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Best comment I have ever read! Awesome. Missed you Jewel… welcome back!!
November 8th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Thanks. I really do love this amazing product. I realize that there are people who believe that privacy is a sacred duty of parents toward their children, but really. This is the lamest excuse for hands off parenting I know of. You should be in your kid’s head. In their business. Why should you wait to have your jaw drop when the police arrive to tell you that your sweet little fartling was arrested in a drug raid…and may now face up to 20 years in a Federal prison?
Or maybe your kid is getting bullied…or worse…is the one who is bullying someone else’s kid.
My opinion is this: Many parents don’t WANT to know. It isn’t that they CAN’T know. They just don’t want to know.
I believe with all my heart that Pandora PC will help me to save my kid’s life….even though she hates me for it.
Ask yourself this question: If the parents of the kids who shot up Columbine would have had the ability to spy on their kids’ computers, and see what was going on beforehand, would Columbine (a mountain flower which signifies peace, from the Latin for dove) come to mean grisly slaughter every time its name is evoked?
January 10th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Currently using another product, was wondering if PC Pandora sends an email with facebook chat. (The other product does not, and was less than responsive with requests to do so.) Thank you.
January 10th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Hey Paul! Thanks for the post. I hope this finds you:
We don’t specifically record Facebook chats in our CHAT area – BUT, between the recorded snapshots of the screen and the keystroke logger (which captures everything), you will have visual and typed records of everything on the PC. So specifically in our chat-central records area – no; but overall, absolutely! We record EVERYTHING!!
Hope this helps. Feel free to email me if you have more questions!
-k