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Great advice as usual....
1. Keep personal details to a minimum
2. Pre-approve other people’s tags
3. Control what information is shared with apps
4. Turn off public search
5. Use the inline audience selector
Get the full low down @ http://theonlinemom.com/secondary.asp?id=2029&t=5-essential-facebook-privacy-...
Whatever age your children are this video is worth 5 minutes to see what is being talked about and how parents are addressing the issue of Social Networking.
Some tips on keeping your child safe online:
- encourage your child to only share basic information on their main profile page and make sure that their privacy settings are set to private, with information only available to friends and family.
- keep an eye on the photos they display and encourage them only to upload pictures that you as their parents / carer would be happy to see – anything they would not want to be passed round the dinner table should NOT make it on to the web. It's also not a good idea to post pictures which can identify the school which your child attends since this could help someone locate them.
- keep an eye on who your child is adding as friends. If you have any doubts ask them to delete any that you are uncertain about.
- if your child accesses social networks on their mobile, make sure they know not to leave it lying around where others can access their account
- if your child keeps a blog, encourage them not to give too much away. Friends can call them for the address of the latest party rather than read about it on their site.
We have recently received a number of emails and reports regarding the website Little Gossip.
CEOP are familiar with this site and believe that it is often used as a platform for cyberbullying and the posting of harmful content by users. We are currently making contact with those parties who run the website and the host company, to question the premise and safeguards on the site and to advise them on how to better protect their users. We are hoping that Little Gossip will respond positively and work constructively with CEOP.
In the meantime, we recommend that young people refrain from using this website as they are likely to witness harmful content or experience cyberbullying. We would also ask that if professionals witness any of the above behaviour that they forward this to CEOP so that we can gather for intelligence purposes. As ever, if anyone feels a crime may have been committed they can inform their local police.
If you are aware of a young person who has been bullied on Little Gossip, we encourage them to see advice and support at www.cybermentors.org.uk.
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We have recently received a number of emails and reports regarding the website Little Gossip.
CEOP are familiar with this site and believe that it is often used as a platform for cyberbullying and the posting of harmful content by users.
We are currently making contact with those parties who run the website and the host company, to question the premise and safeguards on the site and to
advise them on how to better protect their users. We are hoping that Little Gossip will respond positively and work constructively with CEOP.
In the meantime, we recommend that young people refrain from using this website as they are likely to witness harmful content or experience
cyberbullying. We would also ask that if professionals witness any of the above behaviour that they forward this to CEOP so that we can gather for
intelligence purposes. As ever, if anyone feels a crime may have been committed they can inform their local police.
If you are aware of a young person who has been bullied on Little Gossip, we encourage them to see advice and support at www.cybermentors.org.uk.
