MySpace is working on software to help parents control their children’s use of the site.
“Zephyr is a small application that can be installed to monitor profile changes and logins. The program would even alert parents when their children log into the site from computers other than their own. It is not anonymous, however –- a tracked user is notified if the program is watching them.”
The top searches in 2006 go to social networking sites “Bebo” and “Myspace”.
A new study shows that it is not just pornography that is causing concern for educators:
Four out of five (79%) school principals and administrators see danger for students on the Internet increasing and commercial and pay sites rank as their greatest concern, according to new research conducted by a New York independent research firm and commissioned by Thinkronize, Inc.
“Our students as well as many other students across the country are setting themselves up to become victims,” says Pat Johnson, principal of Canby (Ore.) High School, where two students were suspended for going around the school’s technical blocks and being on MySpace at school.
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VirtualPolitik has written 10 tips for families to live in the digital age.
One of the first steps to protecting your children is to set up some basic rules on internet and comuter usage in your family.
I have outlined some basic rules here.
Tragic story of how a teen’s pictures got into the wrong hands.
Read it here.
“I recently began to see more and more incidents involving blog sites. Last year I predicted to parents that cell phones, especially cell phone cams [picture phones], were going to be the next big problem. Cell phones are now becoming mini PCs with portability. What a new challenge for parental supervision!