To further understand this topic, please take a look at the survey results.
In the beginning of this unit, I had all my 7th and 8th grade students take a survey on their online presence. You will be interested to know that about 90% of my students who thought their identities were safe online actually were very visible, Their pictures and in some cases, their addresses and other personal information, were all out there for others to see.
The simple and scary fact is that now all of my students were able to find themselves, their parents and their addresses online. The question then is, "How do I protect myself in the information age?" One of the first priorities I would point out to any family is to prevent your child's name and photo from being associated online anywhere.
Once your child's name and photo are out there, privacy is usually compromised. There are a few tools that are scary, but also useful for parents who want to keep tabs on their children's online activities. Spokeo.com is perhaps one of the best and cheapest ways to keep tabs on your children's online activities. You will need your child's phone number and most commonly used email addresses.
You can set up a basic account for $2.95 a month.
In the beginning of this unit, I had all my 7th and 8th grade students take a survey on their online presence. You will be interested to know that about 90% of my students who thought their identities were safe online actually were very visible, Their pictures and in some cases, their addresses and other personal information, were all out there for others to see.
The simple and scary fact is that now all of my students were able to find themselves, their parents and their addresses online. The question then is, "How do I protect myself in the information age?" One of the first priorities I would point out to any family is to prevent your child's name and photo from being associated online anywhere.
Once your child's name and photo are out there, privacy is usually compromised. There are a few tools that are scary, but also useful for parents who want to keep tabs on their children's online activities. Spokeo.com is perhaps one of the best and cheapest ways to keep tabs on your children's online activities. You will need your child's phone number and most commonly used email addresses.
You can set up a basic account for $2.95 a month.
Steps:
1. Create a separate email address you will use only to monitor your family. Pay for the premium -- it is cheap and worth it.
2. Add your children's email addresses as contacts to your new email address. Make sure that you have the email addresses that your children would have used to set up Twitter, Facebook or even AIM. In the upper right hand corner, you will have the option to *follow* that person.This means that anything they do using social media will be tracked for you to see.
3. When you give Spokeo the password to your email, it will detect all of your contacts and keep tabs on all of their posts on every social medium. This freaked me out. I would not recommend it.
Whenever you log on to Spokeo you will see all updates for all of your kids in one place.
1. Create a separate email address you will use only to monitor your family. Pay for the premium -- it is cheap and worth it.
2. Add your children's email addresses as contacts to your new email address. Make sure that you have the email addresses that your children would have used to set up Twitter, Facebook or even AIM. In the upper right hand corner, you will have the option to *follow* that person.This means that anything they do using social media will be tracked for you to see.
3. When you give Spokeo the password to your email, it will detect all of your contacts and keep tabs on all of their posts on every social medium. This freaked me out. I would not recommend it.
Whenever you log on to Spokeo you will see all updates for all of your kids in one place.
