Tag Archives: Social Media

Making Your Young Teen Safe on Facebook. Now your tween is a Teen, they fall into the Facebook guidelines of 13, as the minimum age to operate a Facebook account.  Many teens see joining Facebook as a passage into adulthood. Parents see it a little differently. So how do you ensure they can use it safely? Even for an adult, Facebook’s privacy …

Mobile Parental Controls. Mobile devices are now mainstream and the perfect size for little hands to use. What’s more is that they are all able to connect to the internet. How convenient! Leave yours lying around and its likely to be picked up by your young one, who will quickly know how to connect to the internet. Kids love pushing …

Why Are Kids Leaving Facebook? Whether you know it or not, Facebook is losing its appeal with teens. Just as parents start to understand what Facebook is all about, and create a profile of their own to keep an eye on their children’s activities, children have decided that it’s no longer cool to be on a social networking site where …

Want to Disable Facebook Facial Recognition? Facebook is acquiring facial recognition firm Face.com, for an estimated $60 million. Facebook already uses Face.com’s facial recognition technology to help it put a name to faces in photos uploaded to the social network. Now, with the acquisition of Face.com, the technology is coming in house. So what does Facebook facial recognition actually do? …

Online Reputation: What Does it Mean? Did you know that everything you say and do online has an impact on your reputation? The internet is a huge collection of detailed information and you might be surprised at how much information about each one of us can have an impact on how we are perceived as an individual. Statistics coming out …

The Value of Social Networking Sites for Kids. At first you may be surprised! Encouraging kids to be on social networking sites? I know how busy our children’s lives can be between school, homework, after-school activities and friends. So you might wonder “when” I’d suggest your child would have time to be online. Well, that time is any time your child has …

Children and Social Networking Ten Must-Know Tips for Parents. Social networking is a huge part of all of our lives these days. In New Zealand, there are over 2 million users on Facebook alone. It may be to connect with old friends, keep in touch with existing friends or promoting a business, but social networking sites prove valuable.Whether it’s Twitter, …

Underage Users on Facebook. Some of us may not realise that Facebook has an age restriction when going through the process of creating a profile.  Part of that process asked for your age.  If the user is under 13 years old, Facebook will not allow the profile to be created.  The minimum age is 13. Yet this is easily bypassed, by changing the …

Are You Concerned About Formspring dot me? Formspring is a question and answer-based social website, launched in November 2009. The site allows its users to set up a profile page, from which anyone can ask them questions. The questions and their given responses are then published on the user’s profile page. The questions can be asked with a user’s name …

Kids Give False Information to get on Facebook. With the eminent demise of Bebo (www.bebo.com) , children are creating profiles on Facebook at a younger age.  Facebook requires a user to be at least 13 years of age but children are giving false information about their age to allow them to create a profile. In some instances, children as young …