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How To Have "The Talk" With Your Kids (On Internet Safety, That Is) When I was growing up, one of the most difficult talks for a parent to have with their child was about the “birds and the bees.”

How To Have "The Talk" With Your Kids (On Internet Safety, That Is)

Today, since kids access the Internet and connect with peers through more devices and apps than ever before, Internet safety has become the new “sex talk” that parents need to have with their children. Teach Your Kids How Not to Get Mugged in Minecraft. Beth Blecherman is founder of TechMamas.com, a site that curates information on family technology.

Teach Your Kids How Not to Get Mugged in Minecraft

Her new book "My Parent Plan" applies her years of technology project management to helping parents make their own plans. Follow her at @TechMama. Web monitoring and filtering tools have long been central to our family technology plan, keeping the house clean of content inappropriate for our three boys. When my older son reached the age of 13 and he and his friends started accessing the Internet through their mobile devices, I realized the controls we put in place were no longer sufficient. Kids are going online via mobile in huge numbers. Teach kids Internet security before the sex talk says Google's Schmidt.

Internet security is rapidly becoming essential knowledge.

Teach kids Internet security before the sex talk says Google's Schmidt

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recently spoke at Cambridge University about his view of our future as tied to technology. Among predictions about cyberterrorism and ransoming of online identities he emphasized the need to teach kids Internet security early in life. He predicts that in the future our digital personas will be so valuable that parents will need to talk to their kids about online privacy before they have the sex talk.

As quoted in The Guardian: The Top 5 Things Parents Should Never Do on Facebook. Dan Tynan has been writing about technology since Steve Ballmer had hair.

The Top 5 Things Parents Should Never Do on Facebook

He is a contributing editor for Family Circle, where he writes about techno-parenting; he blogs about social media and privacy for IDG publications and is the co-founder of a disreputable humor blog. Tynan is the father of two smart-yet-sassy teenagers who consider him a Hopeless Dork but put up with him anyway. Follow him on Twitter @tynanwrites. Like discussing the birds and the bees or explaining the infield fly rule, having the 'Facebook Talk' is now one of parenting's essential rites of passage. Your kids need to know the rules of the social media road and, more importantly, you need to know the rules – what you are and aren't allowed to do in front of their 900 million closest friends. 1. Maybe you think Facebook is a bad idea, and maybe your progeny are among the 0.3% who actually do what their parents tell them. 2.

Parent's Dilemma: Are You Raising Tech-Addicted Kids? Rebecca Levey is a co-founder of KidzVuz.com, a video review site by and for tweens.

Parent's Dilemma: Are You Raising Tech-Addicted Kids?

She writes about technology and education at Beccarama and is a White House Champion of Change for Education. Follow her at @beccasara. This summer a mom I know told me her 12 year-old bookworm daughter regretfully handed back her Kindle Fire, saying she couldn’t handle the temptation to play games rather than read. Her mom was stunned. She assumed that all of those hours on the Kindle were being spent pouring over the school summer reading list. I was impressed that a young girl could admit this growing addiction and hand over her Kindle, but she’s the exception, and not the norm.

TechMama: Web Safety is the New Sex Talk. When I was a teenager, my parents dreaded the “birds and the bees” discussion, a tacit reminder that I was getting older and needed guidance and warning of the adult road ahead.

TechMama: Web Safety is the New Sex Talk

Fast forward to 2012. Kids have access to multiple devices with browsers, providing access to the Internet, where they are establishing permanent digital identities. Facebook updates, Google+ postings and comments they make on YouTube and other sites are all easily added together to form your child’s growing (and morphing) presence in the digital world. What You Need to Know About Family Internet Safety. At @VirginAmerica LAX2SFO. Excited2see my "Web safety i. Q&A: Rumors, Cyberbullying and Anonymity - Pogue's Posts Blog.

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Internet safety - How To. Internet Safety Moms Tweeps. Internet Safety - Applications. Internet Safety Resources. Another Google Fail: Privacy. The full force of the change brought to society by the web is now upon us. The same people who thought "open" and "transparent" were such desirable terms are now freaking out. This genie is out of the bottle, and has been for twenty-five years, since the first attempts at electronic data transfer. And yet only a week ago, I heard Jeff Jarvis, a geek/journalist/pundit on This Week in Google laugh at Germans for trying to stop Google from collecting street view data in their country. The pundits are as confused as I am about where all this is going. Surely the most dangerous owner of your information isn't a company like Facebook that will use your Yelp authentication to reveal what you thought of a restaurant, or use your age settings to send you a targeted ad.

Sure, you can snoop on friends, enemies, and potential employees with Google and Facebook.