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Half of all
Americans(Nigerians) are already on Facebook. The fastest growing segments of new users
are pre-teens and teens. With over 250 million daily users, over 10 million of
those are underage.
Facebook
currently limits the age to 13 but it is easy to lie online about your age and
many 8-12 year olds have Facebook accounts – exposing themselves to strangers,
or posting innocent (or not so innocent) photos of themselves only to catch the
attention of a predator.
Add to this
the phenomenon of Sexting making its way from high schoolers down into
elementary school children and this makes Facebook the perfect storm of
vulnerable young people revealing way too much personal information about
themselves in a way that sexual predators from a few years older to decades
older can find and use against them.
Social
networking also makes children the target of cruel jokes from their peers,
cyber-bullying and crude language in general. While you still cannot get into
an R-rated movie if you are under 17, you can hardly help running across
sexually explicit language, photos and videos through Facebook.
Internet
porn is nothing new, but you used to at least have to go looking for it. But
Facebook allows any “friend” to post to your wall or comment to your posts and
attach messages and images that not only hurt your child, but are seen by their
friends and the public – adding insult to injury and further damaging their
reputation.
Whether your
child posts inappropriate messages or images of themselves, or whether they get
“tagged” by another Facebook user attaching their name to an inappropriate
image, their reputation – online, in school, and in the future just now
forming, can be seriously damaged in mere seconds.
The average
Facebook user has 135 friends, with women having far more friends than men on
average. Each of those friends has an average of 135 friends.
Teens tend
to have twice as many Facebook "Friends", as adults, on average. Most
don’t realize that as a result, simply sharing with your own “network” (friends
and friends of friends) is not safe because it exposes all your posts to tens
of thousands, and potentially millions, of strangers.
Not only
that, the average Facebook user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and
events. Our ProfileWatch feature alerts you to these and other loop holes to
your Facebook privacy neither you nor your child may realize.
These are
just a few of the reasons that Facebook accounts need to be monitored by
parents and guardians. Too much is at stake. Protect those you care about with
EyeGuardian’s technology that is unique in its ability to also scan photos and
videos for nudity.
The greatest
danger to teens on social media is not what they do online, but rather what
others do and say about them.
eyeguardian.com
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