Facebook Cleans Up
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Well, 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!!
