Your Kids and Social Networks
In keeping with the Wacky Internet Predator theme today, I am sharing this very interesting piece that looks at the reality of kids having social networking profiles – even when they say they don’t. Since social networks are where most of the grooming happens, I thought this was fitting.
Not only do 75% of 12-18 year olds have profiles, but many times they have multiple profiles; they have the ones their parents know about and can inspect and they have the ones that the parents know nothing about where they can pretend to be older and sexually promiscuous – or perhaps use it to cyberbully others.
Either way, do you know if your child has a social networking profile? Do you know how many they have? Do you really know how they are portraying themselves?
If you even slightly hesitated to answer any of these with anything but a hefty “YOU BETTER BELIEVE I DO!” well, my friends, you need PC Pandora computer monitoring software.
The fact is, most parents have no idea (even if they think they do) about their child’s online life. Kids don’t like to share that information with their parents. They think it’s totally private and for their eyes only… which is a joke! It’s completely public information and chances are a predator is on their friends list and now knows more about your child’s online life than you do!
But you can change all that by simply monitoring their online activity.
Read this, have a Guinness and HAPPY ST. PATRICK’s DAY! The Wacky Internet Predator post will follow this afternoon…
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March 11, 2010
You’re sure your child has no social networking page?
Written by J. Patrick Eaken, The Press
Seventy-four percent of 12-18 year olds have a profile on a social networking site, a Kaiser Family Foundation study concluded.
“Parents that think their kids don’t might be surprised that their kids do,” Oregon Schools information technology director Nathan Quigg said. “Most kids have switched over to Facebook because once Grandma and Ma got on MySpace, it was no longer hip. I’m sure once there is something new, they’ll switch again.”
Facebook has a rule that a child must be 13-years-old to have an account, but that is not always the case.
