NEWLY UPDATED JANUARY 2012, includes the new Facebook Timeline design.
Your children are playing in an international playground with more than 800 million strangers. Over 19 million U.S. children between the ages of 13 and 17 are registered Facebook users. Just as you wouldn't leave them alone on a physical playground, you need to watch and guide them on the virtual one too.
The Parent's Guide to Facebook: Tips and Strategies to Protect Your Children on the World's Largest Social Network will:
* Give you step-by-step instructions to set up your Facebook profile * Lead you through the new Facebook privacy settings including the new Timeline design * Reveal the top privacy concerns every parent needs to know about Facebook * Show you how to block bullies and protect your child from bullies on Facebook * Reveal the dangers of NOT educating your child on appropriate posting * Reveal the simple errors that could expose you to identity theft and show you how to avoid making them * Share the fun, friendship and social engagement available to Facebook users hwo know how to enjoy themselves safely.
The Parent's Guide to Facebook is a step-by-step guide focusing on using Facebook as another window into your children's life, friends, attitudes and online actions. Facebook is the world's largest social network. To make sure people enjoy connecting with their friends and loved ones while protecting their privacy online, just follow this simple guide. Let the author walk you through the steps from the start of the sign up process all the way through setting up a group, uploading pictures, writing status updates, and do's and don'ts of privacy on Facebook.
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Welcome to The Parents Guide to Facebook!You will wonder why you waited as you find a new world opening up to you through this helpful and thorough guide.Sue Blaney Author Please Stop the Rollercoaster!How Parents of Teenagers Can Smooth Out the Ride
The very user-friendly format was not overwhelming to me. I was impressed with the information, and the gentle warnings. Sandy Kalosky, Retired Middle School Teacher.
About the Author
Kathryn Rose is a wife, mother, aunt, certified social media trainer and specialist and lover of all things social media. She is a sought after speaker and trainer on using social and digital media for business growth and client retention as well as training parents, teachers and children how to use social media to connect and enjoy but with privacy and safety in mind.
Kathryn Rose is an award-winning, best-selling author, speaker and social media strategist and trainer with clients ranging from multi-million dollar corporations, to small business owners and entrepreneurs. Kathryn has a 20+ year career in sales and marketing that includes successful track record of using a collaborative mindset to increase sales.
Nominated for the 2012 Small Business Influencer Award, Kathryn is also the CEO and co-founder of the Social Buzz Club the world's first online marketing collaboration network for bloggers, social media professionals and small business owners.
Prior to her career in social media marketing, Kathryn was a top Wall Street sales executive, responsible for over $100m in sales per year. She used her collaboration skills to partner with salespeople from other companies to form a lucrative referral network.
Kathryn is the author of 9 books on social media marketing The Step by Step Guides to: Twitter, Facebook, SEO/Video Marketing and Linkedin for Business, The Parent's and Grandparent's Guides to Facebook, the Teen Safety Guide , the best-selling Solving the Social Media Puzzle and Return on Relationship. She is a sought after keynote speaker and trainer on using social media for maximum online visibility and using online marketing and social media tools to create referral networks and to increase sales.
Connect with Kathryn http://katroseconsulting.com http://socialbuzzclub.com
This book does an amazing job of teaching parents the why it is important to monitor their children online, specifically on Facebook. It goes into great detail on how to monitor, engage, and parent via this progressive platform. Facebook can be overwhelming when starting out, but the author has gone to great lengths to simplify the process, outline privacy settings, block bullies, and much more. I plan on ordering a few more copies for friends. This guide is a must read for parents as Facebook is here to stay!
This newly updated September 2010 guide on how parents can help their children avoid the numerous predators that lurk, just waiting for their turn on pounce on unsuspecting users of social networking sites, is a useful instructional manual that is easily accessible, even to those of us who were born in an era in which the Internet had not even been fully conceived. Despite being an avid Facebook fan, Kathryn Rose is only too aware of the negative aspects associated with the unguarded use of such a powerful online community tool.
Author of four books on social media for business: Step by Step Guides to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and SEO/Video for business, as well as of The Facebook Guide for Parents and The Facebook Guide for Grandparents, Kathryn Rose is the ideal Certified Social Media Strategist to have written such a book. As well as being keenly aware of the ethical issues involved in the most popular social network on the Internet, she is also both a mom and an aunt, so that she fully grasps the import of protecting ourselves and the youngsters in our care from the potential harm to which it makes the more vulnerable members of our society prey.
The guide starts off be taking us through signing up for Facebook (which includes how to set up your own profile), account settings and the different tabs, as well as the privacy settings and contact information that you should be particularly careful about. Rose then carefully distinguishes between the wall and the News Feed, showing how us how we can control who posts on our Wall and who will be able to see those posts. A description of how to find people on Facebook follows, which is supplemented by how to create a friend list when you do find others to whom you can relate, and how to handle requests to be friends.... A blessing of this system is that you can also "un-friend" them at the drop of a hat (or should I say at the click of a mouse?), unlike in real life, where such situations can be wrought with emotional tension. Additional topics are: Friends options review, creating user name link, removing posts, and reputation monitoring. Rose also provides helpful advice for how to deal with the crisis situation (horror of horrors!) of one's own child "unfriending" one. The book ends with some helpful pointers on joining and starting groups, uploading photos and videos, and playing games on Facebook. As a final step, Rose also includes a "Family Facebook Users Contract," which could prove especially useful for helping you to set and monitor expectations for your kids regarding their Facebook use. Let's face it--you'll never be able to keep them totally out of harm's way, but what you can do is alert them to any possible dangers that they might encounter along the way. The Big Bad Wolf is no longer in Grandma's clothing, but in a guise that requires us to be aware of what information our kids are innocently sharing with those of sometimes lupine intent.
An illustration of each of the public interface screens that you will encounter when using Facebook is included in the body of the guide, which is amply provided with helpful headings and subheadings to signpost your way through the text. In addition to an extremely user-friendly font, Rose highlights her main points in bold, even in addition highlighting the following key point by underlining: "These pages and groups are against Facebook's terms of use and can be taken down so be sure to report them."
Though this guide provides much insight into how to optimize use of Facebook for your child, it is very clearly indicated that the book was neither authorized by, nor is associated with, Facebook® Corporation in any way. The Parent's Guide to Facebook should prove an invaluable aide to those of us who are relative newbies to technocrese. (Reviewer for BookPleasures.com)Read more ›
I wish I had The Parent"s Guide to Facebook sooner! It is a concise and very easy to navigate guide on how to help your kids use Facebook properly and safely. It is more important than ever that parents and tweens have a discussion not only about the technical aspects and privacy/safety issues, but also the long term effects of what you post. This is required reading for parents of tweens and pre-tweens. This needs to be read BEFORE you allow your kids to set up a Facebook page. The author makes it very easy to navigate. This book is great and levels the playing field when generally kids are more savvy than the parents.
The Parent's Guide to Facebook is a must for both educators and parents!
With over 600 million users on the social network giant, it's more important than ever for those of us who are over the age of 40 to know everything there is to know about Facebook. Kathryn's detailed information about how to best use Facebook are priceless.
When it comes to protecting our children on social networks like Facebook, we've got to learn everything we can, as quickly as possible, and this book helps you do exactly that!
I am very technically challenged and frankly was scared to death about what I didn't know about FaceBook. This book provided a simple and methodical approach to learning how to get into Facbook and how to keep my children safe. I believe that the school systems should make this book available to all parents. It was just so well done and so understandable.
