Viewing entries tagged with 'social network'
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Jun 26, '12
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Facebook: Social Network and Child-Predator Playground
Child pornography, although illegal, rakes in $3 billion in revenue each year. You can find it online and sometimes, it's in the most unlikely places.
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Jun 25, '12
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Tips for Kids: Summertime Internet Use
With summer here, children have more time on their hands; many of them spend their time online. We notice that Internet activity increases among our customers and that there is an increase in the number of inappropriate web sites blocked during the months of June through August.
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Jun 22, '12
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12 and under on Facebook?
It's no secret that millions of Facebook users do not follow the age requirement for usage. Children under the age of 12 are invading social networks every day. Many parents openly admit to helping their children go live on Facebook even though the age requirement to set-up an account is in place.
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Jun 8, '12
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Nine Ways Criminals Use Facebook
In honor of Facebook's public offering, 247wallst.com explored the 9 ways criminals use Facebook. With over 900 million users, Facebook claims bragging rights for the single largest social networking web site. Having an enormous community breeds problems. Roughly 20 percent of Facebook users have been exposed to malware and 600,000 reports of hijacked log-ins occur every day at Facebook. How else do hackers get in?
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Apr 13, '12
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Parental Supervision Doesn't Have to Feel Like Teen Imprisonment
Curious by nature, children and teens seek to learn everything. But a smart parent wouldn't allow a child to ride a bike without a helmet; they know what painful consequences can ensue.
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Fri
Apr 6, '12
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Facebook Friendship Led to Sexual Assault
A Facebook friend request sent on a cold day in February 2011 would begin a devastating chain of assaults for a teenage girl.
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Tue
Mar 13, '12
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Pinterest
The latest craze on the Internet is Pinterest. It is growing by leaps and bounds, yet it is still only in the beta phase. What is Pinterest? It is a social community where you are able to “pin” anything, usually images, you find on the web to theme boards. You can also “re-pin” from other people's boards. Think of it this way, an electronic cork board. In the past, you would look through a magazine and pull out the photos of things you liked, pinning them with a thumbtack to your cork board. You could pin photos of people, clothing, plants, home designs, anything. It is the same with Pinterest.
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Wed
Mar 7, '12
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Student Threat at School Averted Thanks to Attentive Parent
This week, a school in Arkansas was forced into lockdown due to a threat posted on Facebook by a 9th grade student.
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Tue
Feb 21, '12
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Old-Fashioned Parenting
Children today are ready, willing, and able to use technology. I have a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old. They both have an iPod Touch, my 12-year-old bought an iPad2 using his life's saving, and both have access to a shared computer in the kitchen.
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Thu
Feb 16, '12
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Parents Beware: Facebook Can Scare
Seven months ago, one of our software quality assurance testers (I will call Michael) created a Facebook account for a fictional girl, Savannah, with a provocative photo in a bikini. Her Facebook profile says she's just turned 14 yrs old. The account is used for testing the integration of Net Nanny with Facebook and is not actively updated.
To satisfy curiosity, Savannah (or rather Michael) accepts all "friend" requests, and she's had almost 500 but Savannah never posts comments or replies to messages.
Within a few months, her Facebook wall was littered with inappropriate comments from "friends" and non-friends. She has received hundreds of private messages as well with vulgarity and sexual content. Sadly, many of her hundreds of "friends" are men in their 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's.
The moral of the story is that parents must be aware of their child's Facebook use because there are hundreds of potential "friends" looking to contact and lure a child into dark and scary places.
Be a parent. Get software tools to make your job easier to monitor Facebook.
I work for ContentWatch and all opinions expressed here are my own.
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