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Where are your kids? Social Networking

Posted on April 25th, by Cathy Olsen in Technology Explained. 5 comments

What are your kids doing?  Who are their friends?  What are they doing with their friends?

When I grew up, my friends had to call my house to talk to me.  We had to go to each other’s house to hang out.  Inevitably my parents would know my friends and my friends’ parents would know me.

Today kids can connect in SOOOO many ways:

 

Facebook message, Facebook status comment, wall post, like button
Twitter
Text message
Cellphone
I could go on and on …

Referring back to the online rules of agreement (See Post), your permission is required before a child signs up for ANY social media site.

List of popular social network sites:

Facebook
Twitter
Xanga
Bebo
Google +
Pinterest
Instagram
MySpace
FourSquare
Flickr

Even if you don’t recognize these names, YOUR KIDS DO!  Also, about every 3 to 6 months there is a new site that comes into popularity.  (Stressed out?!  Don’t worry .. read on).

Here is a … Read More »





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