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Social Networking Downsized
-By Mike DeBritz on Wednesday, March 02, 2011
It seems you can’t go anywhere today without hearing someone saying, “Find us on Facebook!” This message has been received and is part of daily life for high school and college kids. After all, the idea behind Facebook was born in a dorm room at Harvard.
With all the buzz, little brothers and sisters can’t wait to get into the action. Even though Facebook rules strictly prohibit kids under 13 from joining the social networking site, many parents are bending that rule for their 11 or 12 year olds.
Stories like the one reported this week by the Associated Press will make parents think twice, even though this scam didn’t involve kids. A fifty-two year-old woman spoiled a plot by an unscrupulous con artist who impersonated a soldier. This scammer stole various photos, including one of his dog from his mother’s Facebook page. They often start out as wanting to be “friends” and in no time skip to declaring their undying love followed up by a request for money.
Facebook Jr.
With the number of people using Facebook reported to be over 600 million, a number of new players are looking at the under 13 age group as big opportunity. Each one of these sites has a strong emphasis on safety, with some requiring parents to sign them up or by guaranteeing they won’t share the data with anyone.
Many of the new sites tout the fact that they are COPPA-compliant, The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits websites from collecting information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent. Hence the magic 13 year old barrier to enter Facebook, they can’t guarantee your child’s information will be collected or shared because that how Facebook serves up ads.
Social networking meets learning
A new site, Everloop, just launched last week with a bold statement about privacy, announcing a partnership with i-Safe and calling them a “social learning network.” This should get the kids attention, because adding social networking to the school day sounds like fun!
Their blog stated, “We’re thrilled to bring you and your children a platform where they can participate in online learning, communicate with friends and classmates, and spend purposeful time with activities tweens love, giving them the online experience they truly deserve”
It seems another benefit of this network is to help kids learn how to interact online. This is an interesting development in the “if we can’t beat them join ‘em” department---stayed tuned because this is going to get interesting!
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