MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely

by Larry Magid, Anne Collier

Overview

Do you know what your children are up to on MySpace? MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely discusses the booming MySpace social-networking phenomenon and shows you exactly what you need know about MySpace and how to create a safe online experience for your kids. Written by Larry Magid and Anne Collier of Family Tech Talk, this short and extremely useful guide discusses what children are doing on social-networking Web sites and why they have become so popular. While other books on this subject discuss how to use social networking sites, this is the first guide to address the topics important to parents. With this book parents will learn:

• The basics of online social networking.
• How children are using MySpace.
• Positive and negative aspects of social networking Web sites.
• Internet safety for kids.
• How to communicate with children about what they are doing online.
• What parental controls are available and how to use them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132705295
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	08/02/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Anne Collier is an analyst, children's advocate, and journalist who has worked in media since 1980--in print and radio and on TV and the Web. In January 1999, she launched Tech Parenting Group, which publishes NetFamilyNews, the digital "community newspaper" of the tech-parenting and online-safety community. Larry Magid's Web site SafeKids.com is quite probably the world's best-known Internet safety resource. Larr y Magid is the author of the earliest and most widely circulated Internet safety guide, Child Safety on the Information Highway, published in 1994 by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Larry is also a journalist and commentator on technology matters.