[Cialug] Social networking for kids

[William Christensen]

If you want to really restrict what your children do on the internet,  
just restrict their connection speed for every site except a few like  
wikipedia.  You can't stop kids from doing whatever they want to do,  
however you can make things agonizingly slow so that they will either  
be too impatient or it will take so much time their chances are  
getting caught are huge. I had dial up all the way through high school  
while my friends had at least simplex cable modems, worked like a  
charm for me.

-Will

On Jul 29, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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> Jeff Ollie
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