Profiles of parents in social networks to control the children
No matter how small an electronic device, such as a smartphone, this is the key to a much larger world than is often seen. In this universe there are both good things and problems. Especially social networks can be a difficult situation for the little ones who face moments when they miss the opportunity control.
Anonymous profiles that demand weird stuff, cyberbullying, surpassed privacy limits. These are just some of the problems that can overwhelm young people in social networks. In most cases these go unnoticed because those who suffer are silent and do not communicate anything to adults. At this point, opening a profile on these platforms can help avoid these problems.
Silence before the problem
As has been said, sometimes young people have to confront situations in social networks where they do not know how to react, such as the publication of a photo without their consent that is being mocked by others. users. By having a profile on these platforms, parents can learn about this case and report this to the administrators of the page and to the competent authorities.
With this profile in networks parents can monitor all these activities and can even detect cases in which a user begins to annoy their children through these platforms. You have to remember that this tool is done to observe possible problematic situations, never to control the use that young people make of the
social networks.
Although it is advisable to practice safe practices, such as seeing a published photo that can be considered intimate or that your profile offers too much personal information and that can facilitate its location to possible unknown with perverse intentions.
Control in social networks
These are some mechanisms with which to monitor the activity that their children have on social networks:
- Privacy of the wall. When children are older you can not know
what topics he deals with in his conversations and his messages with friends, but you can see who his contacts are. When they are smaller, it is advisable to supervise the activity and enter their profile often, since it may be the best way to avoid a problem that can become more complicated without this measure.
- Put schedules and limits to the use of adolescents from social networks. It is important that parents supervise that they do not connect during study time or at family gathering times such as meals.
- To see your profile, again you have to take into account the age of the teenager. Making a profile of your own and being your child's contact is very useful. It is also good to sit next to him when surfing the net and share it with parents.
- It is good to intervene in the activity that the child does in the social networks commenting on it, asking about it and correcting them. It is good to be aware of the performance of the adolescents and advise them to act in the right way, thus promoting communication between parents and children.
Damián Montero
