Archive for March, 2007
The Courts Rule on COPA, But Parents Get No Satisfaction
Like condoms, it doesn’t matter how good the technology is, it matters whether or not they get used.
Posted: March 29th, 2007 under COPA, internet safety.
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Anti-Social Networking
In the last week I’ve had requests from 10 people to be my friend. The requests come from everywhere: LinkedIn, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo! Messenger, Twitter, Ning, OurStory, and Jubii. (Do you ever wonder why social networks feel obliged to have the least memorable names?) Just today I spent about half an hour going through [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2007 under social networking.
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Managing Time On Social Networks
More and more often, parents ask me for a program that simply does one thing–manage their teen’s time on Facebook and lock it up after a certain number of hours go by. “We trust our child,” one dad told me, “but we know how easy it is for them to be spending too many hours [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2007 under social networking, time management.
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A MySpace Course for Parents
In the Amazing That No One Has Thought of This Before department, I discovered an interesting online course called MySpaceMyKids. For $50, parents can register at the site and watch a series of video tutorials on how MySpace works, and how to optimize it so that their kids are safe.
Posted: March 2nd, 2007 under internet safety, myspace, social networking.
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