NetFamilyNews.orgFacebook just caught up with Google+, Dropbox, and its own little sib Instagram (which it acquired last spring) where photo-uploading convenience is concerned. [I've found photo-sharing much easier and more fun since my kid introduced me to Instagram last summer.] My ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid explains here how to use the new Photo Sync feature [...]
I’m tooting our ConnectSafely horn, here, but we had a launch of our own this week: that of our Google+ guide for parents. You can download the PDF at PlusParents.org, or read it chunk by chunk at the Google Safety Center. In it, my co-author and ConnectSafely co-director Larry Magid and I offer you a [...]
Google has just made its Google+ social networking service teen-friendly. What that means is, all the features that some 90 million Google+ users have now – Circles, Hangouts (group videochat), photo-sharing, games, etc. – are available to people under 18 but now with added protections in place. For example, the San Jose Mercury News reports, [...]
This week Google launched an ad campaign and Web site headlined “Good To Know,” according to a report at the Washington Post. Aimed at teaching Net users the basics of protecting their data in our increasingly social media environment, the campaign has ads appearing in “dozens of U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, USA [...]
Google just added to its regular search results the posts, photos, etc. of your social circles, as they appear in Google+ (if you use it), YouTube, and other Google social products*. It’s called “Search, plus Your World.” Even though you and your kids can opt out entirely to get your Google searches back to the [...]
As mobile apps multiply like rabbits and the number of kids downloading and playing with them seems to keep growing, the usefulness of app ratings to parents seems to be growing too. CTIA – the mobile phone industry trade association – gets this. It recently announced an app rating system it has been working on [...]
If Web users’ use of “AddThis” is a measure of how people share media – and Ad Age thinks it is – then Facebook accounts for more than half (52%) of our media-sharing, but “Twitter was up 577% this year” overall (13.5% of sharing) and accounted for 52% of media-sharing in Japan, interestingly. Tumblr came [...]
More +1 than not but pretty neutral from a parent’s perspective. I say that because, if kids are welcomed to Google’s new social network service, Google+, they – like everybody else – will have the option to choose whether they want to allow their friends (people in their “Circles”) to tag them in photos – [...]
European children “now start going online when they are seven, and 38% of 9-to-12-year-olds who are online say they have a social networking profile, in spite of age restrictions,” the European Commission reports. So it has formed “a new Coalition to make a better and safer internet for children” as part of its Digital Agenda [...]
There’s anti-social behavior at the corporate level, too – especially now, in the age of increasingly social digital media. I mentioned this in my last post, but – since these (media) environmental conditions are new to all of us, including parents – maybe it would help to take a closer look…. We’ve always known that [...]
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