A Parent's Guide to Facebook

I know that Facebook is a huge part of our social culture.  But, many parents struggle with how to guide their kids because their kids are usually one step ahead of them on the learning curve.  The annotation below has several links that can help parents with this social media.  I hope you find this helpful.

Connect Safely - A Parents' Guide to Facebook

via Free Technology for Teachers by noreply@blogger.com (Mr. Byrne) on 11/8/10

Connect Safely, a resource reviewed last year on Free Technology for Teachers, has just released a new 32 page guide to Facebook for parents. A Parents' Guide to Facebook is a soup-to-nuts guide to Facebook privacy settings, profile settings, group settings, and more. For parents who "just don't get Facebook" the guide offers great explanations of the appeal of Facebook for teenagers and what teenagers do on Facebook.  The guide provides a run down of recommended settings for teenagers and explanations of what those settings mean.

H/T to Sylvia Martinez for the news about this guide.

Applications for Education
If you occasionally find yourself fielding questions from parents about Facebook and social networking, A Parents' Guide to Facebook is a good resource to refer them too.

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