[Cialug] Social networking for kids

[Nathan C. Smith]

I would add, after an unauthorized flirtation with Facebook at our house, you should 1) not believe Facebook's user stats, and 2) never underestimate the ingenuity of a dedicated pre-teen.

-Nate

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Ollie
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:40 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Social networking for kids

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:31 PM, James Shoemaker <james at dhlake.com> wrote:
>  My 9yr old is interested is connecting online with her cousins and friends.
>  Does anyone know of a Google+ equivalent for 9yr olds? Features live 
> video chat, photo albums, email, instant messaging and the like would be needed.
>
>  This wouldn't be unsupervised, but all the normal social networking 
> sites don't let kids have accounts without breaking the TOS.

I'm not ready to let my kids onto social networking sites, even though we allow one of them to use email now.  Here's an overiview of social networking sites for kids that I found (it's a little old, but it looks like a good place to start):

http://mashable.com/2010/10/11/social-networks-children/

Jeff

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