Mommy, Can I Make a Facebook Profile? Please!?!?
Mom and Dad delight in rediscovering old chums. High-schooler James uses it to make plans, publish goofy photos and check out the hotties who are friends of friends. But now 10-year-old Abigail wants her own Facebook page. Should you let her?
Both Facebook and MySpace require users to be thirteen, but…come on. Site administrators may not know that a portion of their users still have American Girl dolls languishing on their beds and, even if they care, will likely not find out. Is this a bad thing? Opinions from experts fall all over the map, as CNN found out when it recently raised the question.
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Tags: children, children online, Facebook, Internet, kids, kids on Facebook, kids on the internet, myspace, parenting, parents, social networking
Best of FameCrawler - Week of September 4th
Tom surprised by Gisele’s baby bump?
Kate Gosselin’s Makeover Results
Levi on Palins, Pregnancy and Secrets!
Michael Jackson Wanted to Make More Babies
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Tags: Angelina Jolie, baby, celebrity, famous, google, gossip, Internet, Kate Gosselin, kids, michael jackson, news, NFL, parents, sarah pallin, search, Tom Brady
Fred Figglehorn and Facebook - Top 100 Internet Searches by Kids
While kids were soaking up the sun at the beach, pool, or camp this summer, they were also going online in droves. And Symantec has spent their summer figuring out exactly what kids were looking for when they logged in.
OnlineFamily.Norton sorted through 3.5 million searches made through their service between February and July of this year, and posted their top 100. They include:
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Tags: google, Internet, internet safety, kids, searches, symantec, teens, top searches
Notes From A Non-Breeder: Be All You Can’t Be
Today on Babble:
“Notes From A Non-Breeder: Be All You Can’t Be”
I’m a single guy, but on YouBeMom, I’m a mother of three.
Read it here.
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Tags: Billy Gray, catty, forums, Internet, kids, moms, non-breeder, online parenting, parenting message boards, petty, single guy, twenty-something, YouBeMom
Hackers Take Over Popular Kiddie Website
If your kids are wasting away their summer vacation online, you might want to set your Net Nanny to block at least one Website. Hackers have reportedly taken over a popular children’s site, and unsuspecting kids are loading up on malware as you read this. Continue reading »
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Tags: computer, gaming, hackers, Internet, Jeanne Sager, kids on the computer, kids online, Neopets, online, online gaming, Viacom
Dropping F-Bombs on Facebook: NSF Kids?
I was pissed, and I needed to let out steam. So I left it in my Facebook status: a big ol’ F-bomb.
And now I’ve got a situation of a possible “un-friending,” from an angry grandmother who thinks the F-word doesn’t belong on Facebook.
WTF? Continue reading »
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Tags: curse words, cursing, Facebook, Internet, Jeanne Sager, kids on Facebook, kids on the internet, role model, sex, social media, social networking
Parents Whose Facebook Accounts We Want to Take Away
When I went into labor last December, I posted the news on Facebook. It seemed the most efficient way to get the word out to people who had so kindly not bugged me too much in those weeks leading up to — and going past — my due date.
Plus, I knew I’d get all kinds of encouraging comments immediately after hitting “post.” I loved that comments also continued to trickle in throughout the day. Labor’s not so bad when you have wi-fi and loads of friends who like to waste time online.
So I was suprised when there was a mini-uproar over Kimora Lee Simmons twittering her labor. I think it’s funny when announcing pregnancies, labors and births on FB is characterized as something between tacky oversharing to blind self-absorbtion. Come on — FBs not much different than an email with a kajillion addresses in the cc’d box.
That said, I’m so with the creator of the website STFU, Parents [ht: Broadsheet]. Because some of life’s events should not be status-updated. For example: Continue reading »
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Tags: Facebook, Internet, Kimora Lee Simmons, Madeline Holler, parenting, parents who overshare, poop talk, stfu parents, twitter
