Urgent: Help your kids set their privacy settings on FaceBook
If you have teenagers ( or yikes, even younger kids!) who use FaceBook, you must know faceBook has recently changed the default values for privacy of all the information we as users post on its site. And its gone for the worst rather than for the best. In fact most default options for our text and pictures is ” visible by friends of friends”, ie, by people you don’t KNOW.
Check out this great post by Common Sense media to help you and your children decide who sees what, not FaceBook!
Filed under For international Children and Parents, The Web and children | Comment (0)Online networking tool launched, in Beta version
While this blog contains my ramblings on about living in the Aix Marseille region with children, our newly launched online networking tool, in French and in Beta ( i.e ‘test) mode at this point, is designed to help you all get in touch and exchange the joys, fears and experiences of internationally minded parents! This site is visible here, but one needs to be a member ( and logged in) to access anything significant. This is by invitation only.
If necessary, use the Comments feature here to ask for your sign up link!
Finally a site about the Internet and Children
As I was updating the internationalparents blog, I noticed among the Google generated ads that are automatically sent to the right of the site this link: http://www.internetevolution.com.
I thought, hum, what’s that about?
To my good surprise, its not another site about the latest innovations that are going to mean Web 2.0, and even Web 3.0 are old news. No, this IBM backed site seems, at first glance, to take a societal look at the Web, with parents’ voices being heard loud and clear.
The themes I struggle with as a parent and web fanatic appear there and are debated, at last!
These are:
- How do we prevent our children from accessing shocking content on the web?
Or put in a positive light: How do we create a safe internet for our children? - Another question that gets little press is finally addressed: how to manage the security of information on the web? Protect it from thiefs?
- On a related topic, how to protect our identity on the web, ie, prevent that from being ’stolen’ by someone posing as ourself on the wide open web?
The Web we have today is a young, fearless 20 year old creation with no social conscience. We need, as parents and as responsible citizens, to push for a Web that’s conscious of its responsibility towards society because its impact is immense on the young crowd in particular.
- > Here’s the link again: InternetEvolution.com
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