My friend has a daughter who is 10-years old.  Her baby desperately wants a Facebook page so she can play the games like Island Paradise, Farmville, and the Little Fishing games.  For the longest time, my friend said “Absolutely not!” but finally this week she capitulated.

When we talked about it, I suggested that she never get on unless her Mom is in the same room with her.  But there are other rules that parents should set when children establish facebook (or other social networking sites) accounts.

Besides the typical “don’t talk to strangers” and accept friend requests from people you don’t know, parents can immediately see what their kids are up to with an application called Parental Guidance by GoGoStat.  You set it up and then forward it to your child.  Once they accept also, you can set up guidelines.  According to MomLogic,

Once the child accepts the invitation, the application notifies the parent of status changes, new pictures, tagged photos, comments and posts that use certain language that may alert the parent to a cyber-bullying incident or even a sexual solicitation.

I think safety is everyone’s Number ONE priority and this application will help keep your children out of trouble.