With its two new sites, consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (of Pampers and Tide fame) just may help shape social networking for the 18-to-49-year-old age group. Its women's site Capessa, for networking about "parenting, pregnancy, and weight loss," won't push self-produced video so much as encourage users to be interviewed about their experiences by professional producers, the Wall Street … [Read more...] about Slightly older social networkers
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Social networking unleashed
There's social networking, and then there's retro social networking – the kind without photo-scanning, customer-care staffs, and safety czars. Sites like Stickam.com, the New York Times reports, "which is building a business by going where others fear to tread: into the realm of unfiltered live broadcasts from Web cameras." Stickam hosts live video chat for users, "often from their bedrooms and … [Read more...] about Social networking unleashed
‘Trust with verification’
That's the parenting approach PC World writer and licensed family therapist Steve Bass recommends to his friends, along with monitoring software. The friend he leads his article with has five kids 16 and under. "You've probably guessed I abhor programs that spy on users - but Mom and Dad really need to know what's cooking online," Steve writes (though, ideally, we don't need spyware to know that). … [Read more...] about ‘Trust with verification’
‘Mom cams’ on campus?!
When I first glanced at this story, I was almost as depressed as I imagine a college student would be. Thinking it was about Webcams on campus for parental surveillance, I thought to myself, kids' lack of privacy and parental fears really have gone to extreme! But when I actually read this story in the Christian Science Monitor, I realized it's not quite the imposition on students I thought it was … [Read more...] about ‘Mom cams’ on campus?!
We can virtually parent now
Shades of Nintendogs, only "Eccky" is "human" – sorta. Two people can now find each other, create a virtual baby (Eccky), and raise "him" on the Web with the help of IM and phone texting, reports CNET, leading with: "Technically, making babies is getting easier." Ha! It's a sim game and only in Dutch at the moment, but it "has spawned tens of thousands of unique virtual children and acquired … [Read more...] about We can virtually parent now