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How to Stop Kids from Oversharing Online

October 5, 2017 by Gal Baras Leave a Comment

Perceptions of oversharing on social media

like any community, there are risks and dangers.

Yet many of them don’t know how oversharing personal information on social media can put them at risk. Cybersecurity experts have found that posting personal information can give hackers the tools they need to answer security questions and gain access to a victim’s profile.

Parents contribute in part to the “oversharing dilemma”. If a child has never been taught the risks of oversharing, they will just see it as normal. This is especially true when all of their friends do it. When adolescents see their friends tweeting their location and posting about their families on Facebook, they will likely behave the same way.

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5 Hot Topics for Parents in 2017

August 10, 2017 by Gal Baras Leave a Comment

Parents and young daughter walking hand in hand

Being a parent is not easy and this is especially true in the age of social media, smart phones and the Internet. More than ever, parents need to monitor their children and what they are looking at online. Plus, there is the added challenge of talking to kids of all ages about gender roles and discipline in the home.

Eric Gati, the founder of CynicalParent.com, has published the results of a new study that touches on the above subjects. Gati says he “learned a lot in this study, like the fact that there are more than a handful of very common fears that parents have about their kids using smartphones and social media, either from too young of an age or for too many hours per day. We also learned that 98% of parents find it important to monitor this, we were amazed at how conscious parents are of the inherent risks of social media”.

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