No Parental Monitoring for Tweens on Cell Phones

I recently discovered many tweens who have social networking accounts don’t have their privacy settings set to the highest level.  This is where parental monitoring is needed to advise tweens and teens about their privacy settings. It seems many parents are not monitoring what their kids are doing online.  

Do parents think their kids are safe enough online not to have any parental monitoring? Many parents don’t realize that online predators use social networking sites as their cyber playground for grooming kids.  When privacy settings are not set to the highest levels, then all social networking accounts are fair game for anyone to view their activities and personal information.  

If you are one the parents who think it is okay to permit your tween to have a social networking account, remember the number one rule for teens and tweens who have any type of a social networking account is always set your privacy settings to the highest level, so they are only sharing information with their friends not strangers across the entire web. 

If you are interesting in parental monitoring, check out My Mobile Watch Dog.  This parental control software for cell phones can help you be sure that your kids have their privacy settings set to the highest level.