You might hate Facebook - but as a parent, ponder these stats for a minute:
• 96% of Generation Y (18 - 29 year-olds) has joined social networking.
• If Facebook members were a country, it would be the world's 4th largest behind China, India, and United States.
• Celebrities on Twitter have more followers than the population of Norway, Ireland and Panama.
• On YouTube, 13 hours of content are uploaded every minute.
Like it or not, we are raising children in a wired generation. As parents, we must have a consistent strategy on what technology our kids are exposed and under what parameters. Here are 10 Facebook rules to get you started:
1) Parents will know the password and have access to child's page.
2) Parents can customize their child's settings to make profile safer (privacy, visibility, etc).
3) Email of posts, friends, etc. come to family's home e-mail.
4) Parents will have an account on Facebook, and children must add and keep parents as "friends."
5) Children will not add strangers as friends, or use the Facebook "chat" application to talk to strangers.
6) Parents will set a limit on the time that children are allowed on Facebook.
7) The computer will be kept in a common area of the house, such as a living room or play room, where it will always be in easy view.
8) Children will not share personal information (address, phone number, pictures, etc.) with anyone on Facebook that they do not know well.
9) Children will immediately tell their parents if they see anything or talk to anyone on Facebook that makes them uncomfortable; and parents will take immediate action to block or report that material.
10) If the child breaks any of the set guidelines, his or her account will immediately be deleted and a probation period will begin until they re-earn their parents' trust.
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