(Blog marketing) A Parent’s Guide to Social-Networking
No commentsBy Roberto Garabell
Social-networking is one of the fastest growing activities in the www. The people who make most use of these networks are teenagers. They spend a substantial part of their free-time in chat-rooms, forums and messaging sites. Although things are going better in recent years there are still perverts and criminals out there looking for young victims. Social-networks are an easy way for these people to contact teenage kids without the knowledge of their parents. I don’t think I have to tell you to what dangerous situations this can lead. Now, how should you handle this as a parent? Should you allow your kid to use these sites? Or should you prohibit the use of social-networking sites? Here are some useful tips for parents with a child who makes use of social-networking sites:
The first step is to ask your child if he uses these sites and which sites he uses exactly. You can then examine these sites and familiarize with them. It might help to open an account yourself and check out the site. This will help you to talk about it with your kid and you can make up your own opinion about the social networking site.
Don’t prohibit the use of social networking sites. These sites have become part of your kids culture and it would be a extreme hard punishment to make your kid stay out of this. The best way to come clear with this situation is to educate your kid about a safe use of social networking sites. There are organizations that off so called “Internet drivers license for kids”. These courses teach your kid all he or she needs to know about a safe use of social networking sites.
When talking with your kid about using the social networks you can try to find out who he or she is talking to and what are they talking about. You can tell your kid not to talk to strangers and to people that are much older and not to talk with users who like to talk about sex, drugs and other illegal activities.
The most important thing to discuss with your kid are personal meetings. You need to tell your kid that he mustn’t meet with anybody he got to know online. You can tell him or her that if he/she really wants to meet somebody from the social network, tell your kid that this is only possible if you or an other adult person of your trust goes with her/him.
If you follow the rules above and discuss social networking with your kid he/she will be able to use these networks in a safe manner and you can be relaxed.
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