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What
Parents
Need to Know about Social Media
Posted 7 July
2010
The world of online
communication and electronic devices is booming -- and along with it
the users are getting younger and younger. According to netsmartz.org,
an organization that provides online safety resources to teachers,
children and parents, 45 percent of children in the U.S. use the
Internet.
What are the rules for online safety? What should kids and parents know
about social media? According to Lynn Dykstra, an instructor at Malcolm
Price Laboratory School at the University of Northern Iowa, some
parents aren't as familiar as their children with technology -- which
means parents aren't as engaged in students' online activity to know
whether bullying, cyberstalking, harassment, identity theft,
exploitation, insecure websites and other issues are problems.
Top that with the fact that electronic forums and certain technologies
often lack supervision and monitoring of personal messages, and you
have a big problem brewing.
National research done by netsmartz.org, with Internet users ages 10 to
17, found that girls are slightly more likely than boys to have close
online relationships. Children who reported having low communication
with their parents and high levels of Internet access were more likely
to have close online relationships.
According to Dykstra, children who have good communication with their
parents are more likely to talk to parents about their online
encounters and questions they may have about certain online activity.
"It's important for parents to adapt to, if not embrace the way
technology and society has changed since they were in school," said
Dykstra. "Doing so will help parents understand what their children are
experiencing online and how to provide guidance along the way."
There are a variety of online resources available to teachers, students
and parents to promote online safety. A few examples are i-SAFE, www.isafe.org; Netsmartz, www.netsmartz.org; Safe Kids, www.safekids.com; and WiredSafety,
www.wiredsafety.com.
Safety tips include having house rules about Internet use, safeguarding
computers, having computers in a central location in your home,
engaging in open conversations with children about chat sites, never
responding to offensive or dangerous e-mails and providing access only
to kid-friendly search engines and chat sites.
The American Academy of Pediatrics also suggests that parents create an
online profile so they can "friend" their children and monitor them
online. They also encourage open dialogue between parents and their
children about their social media lives and activities.
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