No one’s got the perfect answer on how to monitor social media and how to respond yet. All we know is that not monitoring social media is a dangerous proposition and not responding in a timely fashion via the same social media is even more dangerous. With the ever increasing reports of online preditors and identity theft, just how safe are your kids online? We teach our kids to read and write, we teach our kids to swim, we even teach our kids to drive a cars, but who teaches our kids to stay safe in the online world?
Facebook, a social media website, started out as a way for college students to communicate with each other. It has become a site that people and companies use for communication and marketing purposes. Although businesses often use other types of media, including advertisements and company websites, to reach potential customers, clients or partners, Facebook has become a tool that companies can use for networking and advertising purposes. If businesses create Facebook pages or advertisements that are engaging, interactive and interesting for people, Facebook can potentially help companies to get more business.
Now Facebook, Twitter and all of the social media sites are prime outlets for preverts and child preditors to hand out, ready to lure your childrem into illicit sex and endanger their lives.
Lots of people like this (sorry can’t find nicer words) are often prey to online preditors who gravitate to people like this who can’t meet people live in person and locally. play to their weaknesses and when they finally meet, bad things happen. Unfortunately, many social networking sites have not had many safe-guards in place to protect children from online predators, however, more recently, these social networking sites have worked to circumvent the attempts of predators to reach younger children.
Read a government paper on what parents can do to protect their children from online preditors and other social networking site woes here. Social Media is becoming mainstream and it’s now possible to monitor the conversations and measure your efforts.
How to Monitor Social Media? Keep your family safe with the GRIP Social Tracker. Social Tracker is like having a digital diary of your children’s every day lives.
Social Tracker activates and records all screen activity once a browser is pointed at websites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Bebo, or any other site you wish to monitor.
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