Saturday, June 27, 2009

Social Networking Sites

Yoursphere.com launched in the United States in September 9, 2008, targeting parents for their teens and kids. It was popular, because it offered minor safety features that other sites did not.

Yoursphere.com is a safe social networking site for kids only. Most social networking sites (SNS) are designed for adults, lacking the necessary safeguards for minors. Social Networking Sites such as facebook or myspace do not prevent predators from contacting your children. This site also offers positive features such as creative writing contest and other positive activities.

This website confirms the social security to information that is entered; they further search the name against a sex offender database. Parents who are giving the minor permission are included in this verification process. These safety features include monitoring cyber bulling. To pay for these safeguards, parents pay an annual fee.

Although, there are other social networking sites for minors that offer some safety features, Yoursphere.com seem to offer the safest. Yoursphere.com would be an account that I would encourage my own child to use, solely for the safety features that it offers. They use technology to oversee discussions to ensure that, they are not only appropriate but safe.

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