Tuesday, July 5, 2011

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Top social networking sites to ensure safety for your children
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Parents are often worried about their kids’ social networking activities. Most of the social networks are not appropriate for their age. But, kids create profiles hiding their actual age and photo to get entries at popular social networks such as, Facebook, Twitter and many more. But, as a parent you never want them to be a part of this world until and unless they qualify a minimum age limit. According to Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) children should reach age of 13 to browse these sites.
Keeping in mind the concern of parents, we have listed some of the social networks that are ideal for younger kids:
  • What’s What:
It is an ideal website for kids in ages 7 to 13 where they can make friends, join and create new groups, share messages with their friends and much more. The site features patent facial recognition technology, moderation and kid-friendly features. In order to sign in to the site, parents are asked to submit their credit card information to prove their identity plus three pictures of their kid. The site also offers parents interesting tips and information to protect their child from online threats.
  • giantHello:
This site targets kids in ages 7 to 13 and for their sign up needs parents’ verification too. Parents have to either provide last four digits of their social security number or they are charged one cent from credit cards. Apart from ensuring safety with parents’ verification, the site has other features that resemble any social networking websites like kids to make friends, message them, customize their profiles, upload photos, put status updates and much more.
Interestingly, the site also enables kids to ‘Like’ different apps besides stopping them to be friends with people they don’t know.
  • Togetherville:
If your kid likes Facebook but due to age factor can’t be a part of it then this site will become his favorite in no time. You can create a profile for your kid via your Facebook account on this Facebook-like site. You can select friends for your kids from their school or neighborhood and thereafter they can access some YouTube videos, games and links. The site allows your kid to update his status, send and receive gifts, create artwork, send messages and even ‘Heart’ their friend’s activities. As a parent, the site offers you full access to your kid’s activity at any time.
With these effective and entertaining websites, now you need not to worry about your child online activities while your kids will also enjoy being a part of these social networks.

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