Facebook Guide for Parents

Newly Updated June 2010. Your children are playing in an international playground with more than 400 million strangers. Over 9 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 Facebook Guide for Parents will:

• Give you step-by-step instructions to set up your Facebook profile 
• Lead you through the Facebook privacy settings and show you exactly how to keep your most private information from the entire internet
• Reveal the top things every parent needs to know about Facebook
• Show you how to block bullies from posting on your child's wall
• Reveal the dangers of NOT educating your child on appropriate posting
• Protect you against the hidden privacy issues related to joining groups or playing games on Facebook
• 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 who know how to enjoy themselves safely.

Facebook Guide for Parents 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. The authors love all things Facebook and they think you will too. So let these social media pros 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.

Kathryn Rose is a founding partner of the premiere social media product and training company Supreme Social Media. She is a wife, mother, aunt, certified social media trainer and specialist and lover of all things social media. She and her Supreme partners are sought after speakers and trainers 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.