Strollerderby : social networking

Brit Kids Learn to Twitter in School

JeanneSager — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:25:00 GMT

I racked my brain for a way to write about this in one hundred forty characters or less. Sorry, can't do it.

But in deference to the subject matter, I'll be brief.

Twitter and Wikipedia have been added to the curriculum at schools in Britain.

Oh, you want more? OK, then. The proposal is to have kids leave primary school with a familiarity with blogging, Twitter, Wikipedia and podcasts. They'll have to have fluency in using a keyboard and spell check . . . in addition to handwriting and actually learning to spell.

But it's not all about technology. The proposal also calls for less usage of calculators and more of a focus on life skills, including learning to handle peer pressure and develop relationships.

The teachers union has jumped all over the proposed changes, accusing the government of going with trends instead of evidence-based studies of how kids learn and what they need. "Computer skills and keyboard skills seem to be as important as handwriting in this. Traditional books and written texts are downplayed in response to web-based learning," said John Bangs, head of education at the National Union of Teachers.

As a writer who does a lot of her work on the Internet, I can't say I disagree with the plans. I love traditional books, I sit down with my daughter and read them every night. But I get my own news on the Web, and I expect she will too soon enough. I can't see a future where she won't need keyboard skills or the ability to navigate the net.

If this were your child's school, would you be protesting the changes or cheering them?

Image: Twitter

Strollerderby's Gone Facebook

JeanneSager — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:01:00 GMT

Can't live without your Facebook OR your Strollerderby?

We've got good news for you!

The new Facebook is driving us all a little crazy, so we figured we'd get some relief by merging our two favorite things. Strollerderby has now hit Facebook! We've got a group for you to join, where you can add to the discussion plus a page where you can become a fan (please, oh pretty please?) and get updates on what we're talking about.

While you're at it, did you know Babble has a Facebook page? Our editors keep you updated there on some other Babble news - like our Babble Playground contests and the other news outlets who are showing Babble some love.

So why don't you come join us?

Click here to become a fan of Strollerderby on Facebook.

And click here to become a member of the Facebook group!

Image: Facebook

Can Facebook Cut the Apron Strings?

JeanneSager — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:28:00 GMT

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.

She's got a point. While I kept up with several of my high school friends when I left for college, it was mostly via e-mail and AOL's Instant Messenger, maybe the sporadic phone call. Although more technologically advanced than Orenstein (who admits she grew up in the "postage stamp" age of college communication), the advantages to all these forms of communication were clear - I could start . . . and stop . . . them at my will.

Facebook is non-stop action. Change your relationship status, and everyone knows . . . now (and trust me, those shockwaves can resonate - ask the cousin who accidentally erased her husband when she was trying to update her favorite books list.). As long as they're your "friend," anyone can and will see - and can and will comment.

Orenstein posits kids will remain tethered to home much longer via technological apron strings, tied to the kids they were forced to spend time with in high school and might otherwise naturally distance themselves from come college. Except, thanks to Facebook (and to be fair, Myspace), now they're tied . . . for good.

I think she might be crediting Facebook with a little more power than is warranted, however. Surveys have found that even users with a friends list in the thousands traditionally only interact with a solid core of "friends." I'd hazard a guess that's the same core today's kids will take to college with them - like the high school friends we kept contact with back in the day. She's also overestimating kids' fidelity. The teenagers I know "friend" and "un-friend" one another with the speed of an eyeroll, to an extent I doubt will change much in the early days of college.

The truth is that old saying, "you can never go home again," will never die. Because leaving your parents' house, even if your friends follow, changes you. Often for the good, sometimes for the bad. But kids grow up - even kids with a Facebook.

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Yet Another "Kid-Safe" Version of Facebook Launched

Kate Tuttle — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:32:00 GMT

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:

The number one priority of the site is KID SAFETY! As a result, we have blocked all bad language, inappropriate and suggestive phrases, and any other word usage that is requested by the parents and users.

So, what if some parents request that word usage like "trans-kid" or "gay teen" is blocked? How "safe" is the space then? Is profanity itself dangerous to kids, and if so, how? I'm pretty sure bullying and harrassment (the main sources of danger to kids online as well as offline) don't require profanity to work.

And what about the other danger so frequently cited in pleas for more kid-safe online spaces -- that of creepy adults who would want to interact with kids online? As much as the research I've read indicates this is a tiny, tiny problem, I actually can't tell whether Kidswirl provides real safety from it -- I just signed up and got an account and all of a sudden my newsfeed features updates from dozens of real live kids who I don't know! And I can see their entire profiles! As a mother who actually doesn't find the online world any more dangerous than the offline one, even I find this a bit troubling.

Bottom line: if you think protecting your kids from "bad words" is among your highest parental duties, Kidswirl is for you. Otherwise, maybe you should do what the experts suggest: talk to your kids about how to manage their online relationships, make sure you understand what they're doing and set appropriate limits, and more than anything, listen to them. It's kids themselves, not grownup marketing types, who can really educate parents about what's going on in their worlds, virtual and real.

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Is Facebook Rewiring Our Kid’s Brains?

SunnyChanel — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

According to the Daily Mail Online, the neuroscientist Susan Greenfield claims that social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are said to “shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centered.” Hmm, sounds a lot like some Facebook addicts I know…who just happen to be over the age of 30.

An Oxford University neuroscientist, Baroness Greenfield, “believes repeated exposure could effectively 'rewire' the brain.” They said that “'My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.'”

A teacher cited in the piece said that she has seen a great decline in how kids communicate and that they have trouble understanding each other in the real world. “It is hard to see how living this way on a daily basis will not result in brains, or rather minds, different from those of previous generations” she said.

Will you let you kids get their own Facebook page? And at what age (that is if they don’t already have one)?

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

Kate Tuttle — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:01:00 GMT

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.

In a first of its kind, Stanford University now offers an evening class to help these befuddled, yearning parents understand the new medium that plays such an important role in their children's lives. If along the way they become fans of beer, sleep, or Aretha Franklin's inauguration hat, so be it. And hey, knock yourself out with the "25 Things" meme (I wonder how many Stanford parents' "things" include an item about how badly the stock market has decimated their 401Ks). But don't try to friend your kids – or your kids' friends – or if you do, don't be surprised if all the kids leave Facebook for something the old folks haven't found out about yet. According to an article in the San Jose Mercury News, adults over 35 represent the fastest-growing segment of the Facebook population, but the backlash can be extreme:

Some kids say that a "friend" request from parent is like discovering Dad at your beer pong game. Or bumping into Mom in the dressing room of Forever 21.

When Facebook first opened itself to the public in 2007, students circulated an online petition called "Don't Let My Parents Onto Facebook!" to founder Mark Zuckerberg pleading for a reversal of the decision. Since then, there has been a proliferation of no parent groups, such as "For The Love of God — Don't Let Parents Join Facebook." One group is hosted by "The Bureau of Endangered Generation Gaps."

Offered free to all parents but particularly aimed at those with kids under 18, the course is intended to help parents learn about the world their kids navigate so that they can offer guidance and boundaries, enforce good etiquette and promote online safety. At the same time, the class tells parents what their kids want them to know -- don't push the boundaries, allow your teenager some space that's for her own friends, not your prying eyes. Above all, both sides say, a little balance goes a long way. As one recent college grad put it, when your mother joins Facebook, it's an opportunity for a teenager or young adult to include her in a new kind of grown-up relationship. Here's how she asked her friends to respond to her mother's presence on Facebook:

"Please make her feel welcome. Friend request her (she has no idea what that is though "... so be patient if it takes a while), and in true Facebook fashion get drunk and write on her wall."

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Is Facebook Making You A Bad Parent?

SunnyChanel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:30:00 GMT

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, do you feel guilty about it?

Erica Noonan of the Boston Globe explored the mommy guilt of online social networking after her two year old insisted on her attention while she was in a “pleasant Facebook haze” recently. She was worried that her daughter may have become a “Facebook orphan.”

Although computer time may take away from the precious family play time, the social connection that is found on Facebook is, she stated in an interview on ABC News, crucial to the well being of parents. Back in the day, parents had more family around and a neighborhood of other parents. But in this day and age, when families are more isolated, this social connection that is created by online social networks helps to keep us sane and not feeling so alone.

Through the comments and feedback that she received, that about 70% of people thought it was a powerful and meaningful social tool and that the key was to find a balance. Yes, it easy to get sucked into a Facebook wormhole but it may be best done in off parenting times, after the kids have gone to bed, or when they are occupied with other activities like a wee bit of Sesame Street or coloring away. Like champagne and cupcakes, it’s best in moderation.

So you feel guilty about how much time you spend on Facebook?

Mom Won't Let Eighteen-Year-Old on Myspace, So He Stabs Her

JeanneSager — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:26:00 GMT

Shelley Sue Pangle might want to pick her battles next time. The Iowa mom told her six-foot-two, three hundred twenty pound son he couldn't use Myspace anymore. Then she tried to confiscate his cell phone charger. Now she says the eighteen-year-old stabbed her. Can you blame him?

Before you get all horrified, don't worry. Pangle is fine. The "stabbing" was a cut on her wrist. Her son, Terry Gene Starnes, was arrested on charges of aggravated assault after police picked him up, riding his bicycle to get away from Momma Lift, er, Pangle. When she'd banned him from Myspace, the Associated Press reports Starnes became agitated started packing his bags to leave. She was trying to take the charger when police say he pulled a knife from his pocket and cut her. Then he took off on his bike.

What part of "he's eighteen," did this lady not understand? Banning him from Myspace? Taking his cell phone charger? Not letting him pack his bags? He's a big boy - in more ways than one (no dig at his weight intended, but it would make me think twice about messing with him). Is this taking parenting too far?

Image: Myspace

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Facebook Kicks Teddy Bear Offline

JeanneSager — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:01:00 GMT

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.

Bartie Bristle's creator Amanda Middleditch put up the page as a "bit of fun." But the English bear shop worker says she got "a very abrupt e-mail saying they felt Barty could be somebody masquerading as somebody else and it could be dangerous." The page was deleted, and calls to Facebook by the British newspaper the Daily Mail were met only with reference to the social networking site's terms of use which cite a user must be at least 13 years old. Bartie is only 2.

Before you start creating a site for your daughter's favorite dolly or your son's beloved bear, take heed: the terms also warn against impersonating "any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity."

If your kids want to be friends with Bartie, they still can. He's found a new home at the Ning site, McBears, and his fan base is thumbing its collective noses at Facebook.

Image: McBears.com

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

JeanneSager — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:58:00 GMT

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.

One in 10 college admissions offers surveyed by Kaplan Test Prep admitted they browse prospective students' social networking profiles before deciding whether to toss an application into the "yes" pile or toss it out the door. Although my 3-year-old won't be posting online anytime soon, what's limited to a few hundred sites right now will be virtual minefield for the Google-savvy admissions staff 15 years down the line. And I don't see myself keeping her off-line.

Unlike parents I've heard who have actually set up systems on the family computer to log every keystroke their child makes (essentially allowing them carte blanche to their child's instant messages, Myspace blogs, e-mails and even their random Google searches), I'm crossing my fingers that the answer to keeping her safe will be in arming with her with the right information. Want to go online? Don't tell anyone anything. Want a Myspace page? Keep it private.

That's what confuses me about the chief Myspace complainers. They're logging on, searching, and finding their kids' Myspace pages - left wide open to everyone, including snooping college administrators. Instead of telling their kids' to button up, they're shutting down their entire world. And what do we all remember from our high school days was the best way to for our parents to get us to do something? Tell us we couldn't. Myspace, Facebook and the like have become kids' alternative to the good old-fashioned pen and a journal. In a world where they spend the day with fingers glued to a Crackberry or a laptop, it's no wonder. And it's just as cathartic.

But for a college admissions officer who doesn't know your kid, who's looking for any reason to throw one more application in the rejection pile to satisfy the college's limited availability, a social networking page written by a silly kid, a goofy kid, isn't going to come off as someone being silly or goofy or just getting things off their chest. In fact, 38 percent of officers said a page view put a child's application firmly in the rejection pile.

So what's a parent to do? Remind your kids, big brother is watching - so keep the blinds closed.

Image: Nick Halstead

Check out the Winner of the Funny Face Contest!

editors — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:03:00 GMT

After all the looking and laughing and laughing some more, our panel of judges picked Dana Randall (that's her munchkin, above) as our big winner of the Funny Face Contest on The Babble Playground. Dana will be going home with the NettoCollection Moderne changing table, a $1,750 value. Whoopee! What do you think someone did to that baby to get this reaction? Dana, please do tell.

Even though Dana is the grand prize winner, we had so many great funny face options it took us an extra long time to choose, so we decided to recognize some of the other finalists in the great Funny Face Contest of '08. These lucky Babble Playground familes will be receiving some consolation prizes from the Babble library. Take a gander at the other winners, after the jump.

Meet the Runners-Up

Alicia's submission:

This left us wondering if perhaps someone left The Shining in the DVD player.

Lizzie's submission:

Excellent use of props.

Lisa's submission:

This would have fit in quite well in my high school yearbook.

You say you want to win fabulous prizes of extraordinary value? If you haven't joined the Playground yet, now is the time. Connect with other families, showcase your brood in photo and video and enter to win more exciting contests coming soon! - April Peveteaux

The Internet is Not the Devil

Kelly Mills — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:31:00 GMT

It seems that every generation views bashing the up-and-coming one as a kind of sport, and this one is no exception. Where older folks once lamented rock music and long hair as markers of the end of civilization, now we have teenagers who are ignorant and narcissistic and spend so much time online that they can no longer interact with real people in the real world. Well, Emily Goldwasser at Salon isn't buying it, and she says the internet is not a danger and a disaster for our kids. She's responding in part to a phone survey of teens that showed a "stunning ignorance" of history and literature.

Boy, does she make some good points in this excellent article: She highlights that with blogs and social networking sites, we now have a generation of kids who are (gasp) voluntarily writing. The internet has "created a generation, perhaps the first, of writers, activists, storytellers" and all our screaming isn't going to stop that juggernaut. In addition, the kids today also know how to find information online, and therefore google has freed up their brains to dig deeper into topics. The real problem, it seems, is that this makes us very nervous. "We're afraid. Our kids know things we don't. They drove the presidential debates onto YouTube and very well may determine the outcome of this election. They're texting at the dinner table and responsible for pretty much every enduring consumer cultural phenomenon: iPod, iTunes, iPhone; Harry Potter, 'High School Musical'; large hot drinks with gingerbread flavoring." You know, I do believe she's right. I just hope when my kid is a teen, she'll have my back.

17th Teen Kills Self In Town With Multiple Suicides

Kelly Mills — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:33:00 GMT

A town in Wales is reeling from a wave of teen suicides, and when a 16-year-old girl was found hanging in the woods this week, the total deaths reached 17 in a little over one year. Some media reports have speculated on a possible internet suicide pact among teens in the area, but the police say there is no evidence of this or of any possible criminal causes of the deaths. While many of the victims did use a social networking site, the authorities say this played no part in the deaths, and argue against the more sensational media coverage. The parents of a 15-year-old boy in the same area who killed himself last week ask for more media restraint, and say "their son may have been influenced by media reports they believe glamorized earlier suicides."

Is there an internet connection between the teens who took their own lives? Sadly, "suicide clusters" where several teens in an area kill themselves over a span of a few to many years, are not unheard of, and certainly pre-date social networking sites. There's been many observed suicide clusters around the world and sociologists have even used them as evidence of the profound influence of society on even our own instinct towards self-preservation. Teens and young adults are the most suceptible to clusters, and in many ways we still don't understand mass suicide, let alone have tons of effective means of prevention. And they are profoundly tragic for the parents of the teens who kill themselves, and terrifying to the parents of adolescents in the area.

The Internet Really is That Scary

Matt Wood — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:40:00 GMT

Surely you've read a bazillion stories warning about the dangers of kids using MySpace, Facebook, et al, and giving up personal information, exposing themselves to predators, etc, and those fears are founded. Just ask Megan Meier's parents. But at least those sites are popular enough that if you even get a whiff of your kids using them, you can stay on top of what they're doing. Plus, they're run by massive media operations that maintain a semblance of ethical responsibility, if not always the best marketing judgment.

What would be scary to me if I had a kid who was of the age to want to join social networking sites (I'm hoping I at least have another four or five year break from that) is the number of copycat sites targeted at kids that abuse the online community concept simply as a way to gather marketing data, or worse. The Texas attorney general filed civil complaints against two such sites this week for failing to protect users' privacy and safety.

Thedollpalace.com, a site devoted to "the art of making cartoon dolls," and Gamesradar.com, a video game site, both asked users for personal information before verifying that they were at least 13, which violates the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Besides asking about height, weight, and eye color, The Doll Palace also asks questions about whether a user "would like to meet someone older than myself" and their "idea of a fun date." Yikes, creepy.

I suppose they could hide behind the veil of ignorance, claiming that they aren't geared toward kids, but c'mon, look at that site. What self-respecting adult would be caught looking at a page like that? Of course, I think the same thing about half the MySpace pages I see, so I'm just a grumpy old man.

The answer is to watch your kids when they're online and keep the family computer in a shared room. This sounds great and all, but of course they can check most of this stuff on their phones now anyway, so good luck with that. I can't wait.

Photo: News8Austin.com

Social Networking Sites Target 8-year-olds (Successfully)

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:01:00 GMT

Interacting with online users in a 2D world. Sharing music. Swapping stories. Creating avatars. Keeping up with friends. Sound like you? Perhaps, but it's also true of a growing segment of the social networking audience: 6- to 8-year-olds.

Thanks to sites like Webkinz, Club Penguin, Barbie Girls, Nickelodeon's Nicktropolis, and Disney Extreme Digital, kids in this age group are spending about 45 minutes a month in front of computers keeping up with their social networking sites. While this may not seem like a lot of time, it cuts into TV viewing time which is exactly what these sites want. Parents: this is your wake-up call.

"These tweens have a crosshairs on their backs," said Liz Perle, editor-in-chief of Common Sense Media, a nonpartisan San Francisco organization that evaluates media. "The corporations know if they can get (young customers) now, they will establish brand loyalty for life."

Parents that once worried about older kids hanging out on MySpace now have cause to be concerned about their younger children. Perle believes that 6-years-old is too young to be social networking and that an hour of screen time is appropriate for 8-year-olds.

This still seems like a lot of time to me. My eldest (almost 5) is blissfully ignorant of the computer. I suppose it's because my husband and I are so addicted I'd like to postpone the experience with my kids for as long as possible.

Perle adds, "A 6-year-old should be learning how to work out social situations on the playground, where you can read someone's facial expression -- not on some two-dimensional Web site where if an (avatar of a) penguin doesn't want to talk to you, he turns his back and walks away."

Word.

Web Savvy Moms Spend Over an Hour a Day Online

Stefania Pomponi Butler (CityMama) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:33:00 GMT

According to BabyCenter, 32 million internet-savvy American moms spend an average of 86 minutes online "communicating, networking, sharing information and offering guidance and support."

These moms aren't just shopping and checking email. They are reading and writing blogs, sharing photos and videos, participating in forums, message boards, chats, and one-on-one communication such as emailing and IMing. In other words, "Hello Strollerderby reader! Thanks for spending some of your 86 minutes with us."

Want to know about social media? Go ask a mom. In fact, go ask this mom. Geeking out online is her passion and her whole blog is dedicated to being a "tech mama."

Moms are meeting, connecting, and sharing like never before, even if we never leave the house. Which begs the question: How did our mothers get by without Google?

Famster Launches Kid-Safe IM Client

Patti — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:05:00 GMT

Famster, a social network designed for families, has announced the launch of their new IM component. Fully web-based (no downloads required), Famster IM includes features like controlled user name creation, two-way buddy list approval, and other ways to monitor your child's usage.

Famster itself is a Flash-based social networking site that purports to be a safe, family-friendly alternative to sites like Myspace, and Famster IM could be the solution for parents worried about how to balance internet safety with freedom to explore.

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