With 90% of children under 10 going online, and 86% of children aged between seven and 11 using some form of online communication, the risk is there from an early age.
The more you know about the kind of social networking sites your child belongs to and what information they like to share, the more likely you’ll be able to keep them safe.
But it does require you to know about the technology that kids are using. It might be funny to joke about how the kids can use these new-fangled devices that we don’t even understand, but if you expect to keep an eye on what those kids are doing, it’s going to require some familiarity of your own. Social networks and online gaming might not be your cup of tea, but your kids are using them, so you should be too.
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This isn’t the worst idea I’ve ever heard: Once upon a time, newspaper publishers had a great business model: Selling ads that were printed on paper, then selling bundles of those papers to consumers. Obviously, things have changed — most news is a free commodity and, according to former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile, some 236…
I love what John Scalzi had to say in this entry about how all of the advice about getting people to read your blog is annoying. I agree with him that you know who these people are, and you can see right through them. Similarly, that’s why I’m not one to jump on doing this…
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