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Dangers of Social networking sites..
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Has anyone read the article on the dangers of social networking sites?
If not You can read it here
What do you think of this...
are we doing enough to protect children from bullys and online predators?
If not what do you think we COULD do to help protect them?..
I apologies if there is already a thread like this...
If not You can read it here
What do you think of this...
are we doing enough to protect children from bullys and online predators?
If not what do you think we COULD do to help protect them?..
I apologies if there is already a thread like this...
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Retarded children, and retarded parents who a) don't monitor their children's usage and b) sell the story to the fucking Sun, are dangerous.
I've met people off social networking sites, or bulletin boards. I might even have had sex with some of them. And I'm not yet buried under a patio.
I thought I had set everything on my facebook profile to private not realising that with the new changes my photo albums were now public.
It's really annoying because now you have to go through all of your albums and set each one individually to 'Just Friends'. So now I spontaneously click the button on my profile 'View As' just to check facebook haven't messed with my privacy settings again. Grr
Like people moan about tumblr and all the anon hate, but there's the option to turn that off, so in all honesty it's the person's fault as they're in a way putting themselves in danger, no sympathy what-so-ever.
What we can do is the same thing we did back then. Teach our kids what is ok, what's not ok and how to stay safe. Make them web smart. Knowledge is power!
It's simple - set most things, if not everything to private, only add who you know and do regular culls of people you don't really talk to. If you add someone out of politeness then just set them as an acquaintance and put your settings so they can only see certain photos etc. I don't even let mine see most of my statuses. And most of all, don't post anything stupid or compromise your safety. It's not hard but people just seem to lack the common sense
I spend a lot of time in schools trying to educate kids on how to stay safe online (in fact I've got a load of sessions today). The kids who listen, wouldn't have done anything stupid in the first place, the kids who don't listen? They're the ones who think (despite what I tell them) that having thousands of friends who you've never met and exchanging postal addresses and telephone numbers is an acceptable activity.
What should be happening is that social network sites should have an enforceable age verification scheme and that parents should take far more notice of what their child is doing.