As the news comes now, Facebook has some 1 million active advertisers. Teens and children are experiencing a lot of advertising online on all most all their social networking websites like Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook. According to some statistics, many big as well as small businesses create their Facebook pages and there are around 16 million such pages. Here is a quote worth mentioning on the current state of online advertising:
“As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise” – George Will
As the problem of today is not the lack of information or noise but excess of it, we need to control what children access online. Children and teens can feel alone and isolated if they don’t know how to make meaning of all this noise created by friend’s comments and remarks. With ads all over Facebook, they would end up as improvident spenders or hoarders. As not all parents have the means to fulfill the never ending online demands, both parents and kids can feel not being understood. That is why it is a must to know what they are consuming online with monitoring and filtering software like PhoneSheriff.
Recently we have heard about paid advertisements and paying social media sites to draw in more visibility to a business. It is for businesses and even people like us and kids who want to see more likes and shares for their content online. It is a business model now where content is pushed to more people, one has to pay for it. It is imperative we educate very young kids (and teens even though they think they already know a lot) that Facebook is for creating long term relationship with people who can be really called ‘friends’. Twitter on the other hand is for following people who one can look up to and get some inspiration plus earn some followers and LinkedIn is where one can easily communicate with prospective employers and even generate quality leads.
Lastly it is important to keep forth the security and identity fraud in mind while going online. It is best to never click on links received from unknown sources in private message on Facebook or any site, email, etc. These can connect one to malicious websites and steal personal information. It happens when we least expect and that is why it is advisable to use strong and different passwords to different accounts. This is really difficult for kids to understand and with PhoneSheriff parents can guide them of such dangers.
The remote monitoring and filtering software features of PhoneSheriff do a stellar job at recording and logging phone activities. View all the call logs, contacts, emails, apps, photos, videos, GPS and much more. Find out what they chat and if they are in conversation with strangers who can be potential predators. Know if they are sending objectionable personal photos or are they sharing too much online with others. With PhoneSheriff parents get the best solution working 24/7 for safety of kids and even employees.