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• Katie Roiphe Doesn't Like You Or Your Kids

  If you use a photo of your child on your Facebook profile, Katie Roiphe thinks you are not a good woman. Read More... Posted May 31 2009, 11:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 50 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, college, academics, feminism, rants, judgmental, Brett Singer, arguments, annoying people, katie roiphe, people who think they are smarter than they are, hiding behind your kids

• What's More Embarrassing: Pics of You or Your Kids?

  Apparently, the way I use Facebook embarrasses my kids. Yes, I did the 25 Things. Yes, I was tagged in a photo from high school (nice asymmetrical, there, Madeline). Yes, I update with my life's minutae, like the fact that my in-laws percolate their coffee and that sometimes I'm tired and want ice-cream.  According to this "Facebook Survival Guide for Awkward Adults" on MSNBC, however, my biggest FB-user/parenting fail is this:   Read More... Posted Mar 30 2009, 03:27 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, family, family activities, photographers, family photos, profile pics

• Strollerderby's Gone Facebook

  Can't live without your Facebook OR your Strollerderby? We've got good news for you! Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 12:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: Babble, Facebook, strollerderby, online, social networking, social media, Jeanne Sager

• Can Facebook Cut the Apron Strings?

  While we adults are caught up in catching up on our past on Facebook, there's a possibility our kids are going to miss out on one of the great joys of late teenagehood. Escaping.  An interesting piece by Peggy Orenstein in the New York Times this week ponders whether kids will be able "to get busy with the embarrassing, exciting, muddy, wonderful work of creating an adult identity" with four hundred of their old high school buddies watching over a T-1 line.  Read More... Posted Mar 19 2009, 12:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: education, teenagers, Facebook, MySpace, college, social networking, social media, friends, friendships, relationships, growing up, Jeanne Sager

• Yet Another "Kid-Safe" Version of Facebook Launched

  Now entering the growing market of social networking sites aimed at making parents feel like their kids are safe, safe, safe: Kidswirl. Clearly modeled on Facebook, Kidswirl won't fool your older child but might help you keep your younger kids (say, under 11) from figuring out about the real thing. It's hard to figure out, though, what the real differences are. The interface is a complete lift from Facebook -- unless they have prior legal permission, I'd bet it's likely they'll be sued soon. But the site's PR wants to assure you that it's, like, a zillion times less potentially offensive and dangerous: Read More... Posted Mar 18 2009, 11:32 AM by Kate Tuttle with | with no comments Filed under: bullying, Facebook, internet safety, social networking, stranger danger, harassment, online safety, kidswirl

• More Than 2,000 NC Sex Offenders Found on MySpace

  Do your kids use MySpace? Do they share photos with "friends" they make online? Do they know that some of those friends may be convicted sex offenders? Read More... Posted Mar 16 2009, 05:01 PM by KeriF with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, MySpace, Keri Fisher

• A Safer Space for Kids Online: Hope or Hype?

  Concerned about the dangers of online predators, mom-of-five Mary Kay Hoal launched a social networking site that she hopes will provide a safe space for kids aged 9 to 18 to interact. But can places like Yoursphere -- which charges a monthly access fee and checks to make sure nobody on it is a registered sex offender -- really serve as alternatives to Facebook (or to MySpace, the Sodom and Gomorrah of Hoal's press release, although nobody really uses MySpace anymore)? And is an alternative even needed? Read More... Posted Mar 10 2009, 04:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, internet, Facebook, MySpace, Harvard, online, online predators, texting, teen, online safety, mary kay hoal, berkman center, yoursphere

• Teen Girls Fight to Take "Toddlers and Tiaras" Off the Air

  A couple of smart, engaged teenage girls from Niagara Falls have gotten some media attention through their efforts to ban the TLC reality TV show, Toddlers and Tiaras—better known to some as, “Scarring Your Children for Life on National TV.” Read More... Posted Mar 02 2009, 06:50 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, TLC, teenage girls, Niagara Falls, toddlers and tiaras, ban toddlers and tiaras

• Is Facebook Rewiring Our Kid’s Brains?

  Facebook, and other social networking sites, are certainly getting a bad rap lately. There have been criticisms that Facebook can make you a bad parent,  your kids won’t add you, can get your busted,  won’t let you put up your breastfeeding photos and now a respected scientist is saying that social networking sites can harm our kid’s brains.  Read More... Posted Feb 24 2009, 07:00 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, social networking, twitter, tech and kids, kids on facebook, kids on computer

• How To Catch a Teenage Crook: Use Facebook

  If you thought the only risk your kids had in going on Facebook was from child predators, guess again. It turns out when they royally screw up in the real world, Facebook can get society the help it needs.  Police officers in Maine took surveillance photos of some teenage hoodlums and posted them on Facebook - so users could identify the crooks and send them to jail. Read More... Posted Feb 21 2009, 12:47 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: discipline, behavior, Facebook, online, social media, child criminals, law enforcement, Jeanne Sager, kids online

• Users Face-Off with Facebook

  If you're like millions of people, you post the occasional--or perhaps the frequent--baby photo, family portrait, newsy bit--or 25--on Facebook for the appreciation of your "friends." Since its new terms of service came online a few weeks ago, Facebook has been dodging and ducking accusations of stealing users' data.  The new terms stated that not only does Facebook own and control anything you put on the site, it owns and controls anything you ever put on the site, even after you've taken it down. After listening to the outcry, Facebook has responded by Read More... Posted Feb 18 2009, 01:30 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, Shannon LC Cate, internet privacy, facebook terms of use, facebook users

• Parents Just Don't Understand (Facebook); Stanford Aims to Help

  Everyone knows that all American teenagers – save those being raised on religious compounds or in hippie treehouses – are on Facebook.  They go there to talk, laugh, share their intimate feelings – all the things they once did with us, their parents, and now do with 928 "friends" instead. For parents who consider themselves close to their kids, it can be a little hard to take, this feeling that while you're the one paying the bills and making their dinner and washing their socks, their true emotional lives are happening somewhere else, or nowhere at all. So, remembering the old adage "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," thousands of middle-aged parents of teenagers now find themselves on Facebook, stalking their own children. Read More... Posted Feb 12 2009, 01:01 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: internet, Facebook, Etiquette, online, social networking, stanford, online safety

• Announcing Pregnancy Via Facebook Status Update: Tech Savvy or Totally Impersonal?

  In a world where Erykah Badu Twitters her home birth, a single mother gets hired and fired on Facebook and a guy can propose marriage in Tweet form, the notion of announcing a pregnancy via Facebook status update seems kind of, well, quaint. I mean, already plenty of people offer running commentaries on every mundane thing they do via status updates: "Decided to have soup for dinner. 5 minutes ago." "I am now opening the can. 2 minutes ago."  "I am trying to pour contents of can into a pot, but having trouble. Perhaps it's because I am incessantly updating status while cooking. 30 seconds ago." It only seems natural to share a major announcement in the same way, right? Well, maybe... Read More... Posted Feb 05 2009, 07:58 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, technology, Facebook, social media, Jen Chaney, twitter, announcing pregnancy

• Morning News: Obama Says 'I Screwed Up'

  President Barack Obama took full responsiblity for the latest embarrassment to the new and still forming administration. He told Anderson Cooper last night, that though he  thinks Tom Daschle was the man for the job, ignoring the former senator's tax mistakes would send the wrong message to Americans.    Read More... Posted Feb 04 2009, 09:30 AM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Facebook, CNN, barack obama, John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, schip, morning news, tom daschle, myspacece

• Morning News: Beating the Odds, Beating it Back to Work, Beating the Clock

  Unemployment rose in every single state in December and another group of big corporations announced huge, huge layoffs. Nobody's buying anything anymore. Does anybody else feel a little manic-depressive after all the excitement of last week's inauguration and all of this week's depressing economic news? No, no, we haven't lost hope. We're just settling in for the long haul and looking for some happier news. Especially in light of this tragic story:   Read More... Posted Jan 28 2009, 09:00 AM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, fertility, barack obama, michelle obama, peta, morning news, superbowl, prostate cancer, economic stimulus, dick van dyke

• Are Facebook Breastfeeding Advocates Being Too Prudish?

  I participated in the whole "Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene" event. And I'll admit that even though I tend to think it's a good sign when people who disagree on other things can unite around some common ground, I was still deeply creeped out by the supporters who posted things like "I mean, I wouldn't want my kids to see those icky Facebook ads where two girls kiss, but breastfeeding is natural and God-approved so that should be OK."  Marty Klein takes that a step further, arguing that the Facebook campaign organizers are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to position breastfeeding pictures as "good nudity" as opposed to those pictures that really are obscene, rather than taking a more broad anti-censorship stance. Read More... Posted Jan 26 2009, 04:35 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: breastfeeding, Facebook, discrimination, free speech, breasts, obscenity, breastfeeding in public, nursing in public, nudity, Marty Klein, nurse in, breastfeeding photos, mother's breasts, Axel-Lute, obscene, bare breasts

• Is Facebook Making You A Bad Parent?

  Do you find yourself checking your Facebook account three, four or even twelve times a day? Do you sneak away during kiddie play time to update your “What Are You Doing Right Now” status with “I’m doing kiddie play time”? Do you let the kids run wild while you scour for news on what your friends are doing in life right now instead of doing some living your self? If you answered yes to any of those questions...   Read More... Posted Jan 13 2009, 03:30 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, MySpace, Mommy Guilt, social networking, parents online, balancing

• Kid Won't Friend You on Facebook? Get a Life

  We all want our kids to love us even a smidge as much as we love them. But needing our kids to verify we're cool enough to be their "friends" on Facebook? Maybe it's time you get off the internet and MEET your kid. I laughed at Lisa Belkin's essay a few months back in the Times about her kid refusing to friend her online. She even joined a group of moms whose kids are embarrased to find them on Facebook. Now the kids are getting back - with a group that's five thousand strong and growing, dubbed "For the love of god -- don't let parents join Facebook." I've got news for you kids, not every mom wants her kid sending her a friend request. If they do, there's a fair amount of us who wouldn't hesitate to hit "deny." Read More... Posted Jan 04 2009, 11:23 AM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Facebook, MySpace, social media, Jeanne Sager, Lisa Belkin, twitter, moms seeking approval from kids, motherlode, pillow pants, parents online, moms online

• Breastfeeding Moms Fighting Facebook Ban

  You can see it on Main Street, but breastfeeding moms are not allowed on Facebook. The social networking company has been deleting photos of women with their babies at their breast because it says it violates the decency standards set up for posting pictures on the site.  But moms are fighting back - with a Facebook group and plans for a "nurse in" at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Read More... Posted Dec 18 2008, 08:23 AM by JeanneSager with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: breastfeeding, Facebook, discrimination, obscenity, breastfeeding in public, nursing in public, Jeanne Sager, nurse in, breastfeeding photos, mother's breasts

• Coming to Facebook: Fetal Baby Kick Report

  Hey pregnant chicks, want to walk around with an ugly, bulky belt wrapped 'round your middle just so the rest of the world (because the rest of the world is on Facebook, of course) can keep track of your baby's every movement? An NYU doctoral student seems to think you would. He's created the Kickbee, a big ol' belt not unlike the monitor's they wrap around you in the hospital when inducing labor to track the fetal heartbeat. Only where the slightest movement of the monitor for the heartbeat will cause Nazi nurse to come running in to yell at you for not keeping the belt on "just so" (because mid-contraction you really have control over these things?), this belt is just there to track a little kicking action. Read More... Posted Dec 17 2008, 12:31 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: pregnancy, baby, mother, pregnant, Facebook, Jeanne Sager, twitter, maternity wear, maternity clothing, fetal kick, maternity couture, fetal sensor

• Blogging Moms Find a Kidney For Teen on Dialysis

  If you've ever doubted the power of the Internet, just imagine the motivation of helping a kid in need thrown in. This is one of those happy holiday stories to make up for all the bad stuff we ended up writing about here on the 'Derby, but I warn you. Get out the tissues. Read More... Posted Nov 27 2008, 12:02 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: ebay, Facebook, online, sick kids, thanksgiving, teenager, mom bloggers, organ donation, organ transplant, Jeanne Sager, mom blog, twitter, kidney dialysis, domestic diva, teenage organs, dialysis, Kidney donor, blogging moms

• Facebook Kicks Teddy Bear Offline

  Christopher Robin wouldn't fit in at Facebook. Winnie the Pooh's best friend treated his stuffed teddy bear like he was a real live bear. Facebook, meanwhile, has kicked a British teddy bear offline, stranding his growing friend list without a bear buddy. Read More... Posted Oct 27 2008, 02:01 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: toys, Britain, england, Facebook, teddy bears, social networking, Winnie the Pooh, christopher robin, Jeanne Sager, Bartie Bristle, Ning, McBears

• Social Networking, the Next Hurdle to Getting Them Into College?

  As if getting them into the right pre-school, making sure they tie their shoes on time, and packing their adolescent days with just the right balance of after-school activities and opportunities to "give back" wasn't enough to stress about for the next 18 years. If you want to get your kids into a good college, you might want to make sure they keep those Myspace pages private. Read More... Posted Sep 29 2008, 03:58 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: teens, Facebook, MySpace, college, social networking, Jeanne Sager, pre-school, Kaplan, admissions officers

• Did Bristol and Levi Tie the Knot?

  And, more importantly, do their parents know? (Hey, it's a fair question ... this family loves its secrets!) A blogger has uncovered a Facebook page that lists the VP candidate's daughter as Bristol Palin-Johnston, which would imply that she and her boyfriend Levi Johnston have made the Palin family whole again. Only, I'm a little suspicious.   Read More... Posted Sep 16 2008, 05:46 PM by Madeline Holler with | with no comments Filed under: Facebook, sarah palin, bristol palin, levi johnston, bristol palin-johnston

• Girl Talk May Fuel Anxiety

  Naturally you want your children to have close friends, people they can trust to help them navigate social and emotional concerns. But there may be such a thing as too much talking. Psychologists call it “co-rumination:” the tendency to dwell on a personal problem with a friend, seeking empathy and validation. Anyone who’s responsible for paying a teenage girl's phone bill is probably more than a little familiar with this type of conversation: do you think he likes me? Is so-and-so mad at me? Should I break up with him? Read More... Posted Sep 12 2008, 04:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: parents, teenagers, depression, cell phones, Facebook, MySpace, high school, girls, research, boys, studies, self-esteem, anxiety, advice, gossip, best friends, friends, problems, emotions, email, peers, female friendships, phone, boyfriends, girl talk fuels anxiety, emotional conversations, girl talk, validation, social problems, obessing, co-rumination, chatting, too much talking, feelings, worries