Posts Tagged ‘Parents’

All due respect, parents need to take the time to communicate to their children about social network’s shortcomings. They need to have some familiarity on how to use the different social networks. Using a social network essentially requires the use of your real name and identity; many people often post excessive amounts of personal data including their daily habits and locations.

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More and more parents are keeping tabs on their children by using Facebook, and a recent study reports kids are becoming aware of their parent’s meddling into their social media activities. I find this statistic interesting: 11 percent of the parents surveyed use Facebook to snoop on their children.

What I like about this platform is that it helps me organize my project. I can enter my overall goal and then break it down in steps, so I know exactly what I have to do in order to achieve my goal. I love it when social media becomes proactive like My Dream Machine.

LivingSocial is calling their expansion “parent-approved”. The daily deal company is expanding into U.S. and European cities. However, it does sound a little like a commercial, but as parent who knows, saving money this summer with kids is heaven sent. Whatever happened to just going to the park for picnic and swim?

Don’t let the name of the site throw you off. Kakabox.com is a new interactive site that offers a variety of useful, easy-to-use tools for parents. My favorite is placing photos of the newest addition to the family on a specially designed baby timeline, parents can permanently capture those early golden moments and developmental stages.

Have you told your mom ‘Happy Mothers Day’ yet? Sent a card? Bought her flowers? If not, maybe one of these videos will suffice.

Imbee is aiming to be the Pandora for kids as well as the Facebook alternative for kids 8-14. Kids definitely need an alternative to Facebook, and imbee might be the answer.

Available in the cloud at no cost, GoLiveCampus.com allows parents, students and teachers to safely search for relevant videos. The site dynamically pulls content from YouTube and social networking sites through a robust safe search. The search removes comments and ads and gives students access only to clean, appropriate videos.

So now, we have a statistic called “underage social networking site users.” So, kids lie about their real age. A good guess is that many parents allow their children to “make believe” they are older.

Meredith announced the launch of the Meredith Video Network, which will offer content from Parents, Family Circle, More, and Fitness.

Videos are sorted by brand or topic, and users can customize their video-channel pages, comment, and share video content via Facebook and Twitter.

Meredith Video Network can be accessed via the following four links: http://tv.fitnessmagazine.com, http://tv.more.com, http://tv.parents.com, and http://tv.familycircle.com.

Meredith Video Network is powered by multiplatform content and media publishing system Creator 2.0.

Meredith Video Studios executive vice president Kieran Clarke said:

Meredith is one of the first media companies to aggregate thousands of video assets from across Meredith brands according to the passions and affinities of our audience. This revolutionary new network provides our advertisers a new way to reach their target markets, and allows consumers to seamlessly watch robust content from across multiple Meredith brands.