Facebook Safety For Your Family & Children - Focus on Privacy Settings
Monday, June 28th, 2010

Facebook Safety For Your Family & Children
I get allot of emails and questions on my profile about the real safety issues with social media and their families. I see a trend of parents already allowing supervised use of social media sites so that they can communicate with their extended family like grandparents, aunts and uncles. Though it my seem to be harmless, this practice of letting kids under 12 is going to open up a can of worms unless privacy settings within the social media site are set correctly.
Each social media site has great privacy settings that most people don’t know exist like blocking friendship requests, hiding important information to the public like e-mail address and personal locations like city, town, schools etc..
Parents that do allow their kids to participate should also be vigilant with the profile because even though you might allow them to communicate with a chosen few, it’s not the content that “they” would post, but that their friends might post. What?
If you know that the circles of friends that you have selected as people that your kids can participate with are aware of the kids being present, they will watch what they post. But the friends of those friends might not know and therefore when they post comments and they are not knowledgeable about who’s watching and that’s when the issues start to come up. (more…)
Tags: Children, Facebook, For Your Family, Safety











