General tips for parents

• Talk to your kids and try to set reasonable expectations.
• Help our kids understand the basic safety guidelines
• Support critical thinking and help him develop civil behavior rather than using parental-control softwares
• A busy offline schedule helps promote good online behavior
• Try to get your kids to share their profiles and blogs with you.
• Take computers out of the bedrooms and put them in the living room or where the parents are.
• If all these measures fail, remember that you’re the parent.  If you don’t like it, unplug the computer.

General tips for teens

• Be nice online. Or at least treat people the way you’d want to be treated.
• Post only information that you are comfortable with others seeing — and knowing — about you. Many people can see your page, including your parents, your teachers, the police, the college you might want to apply to next year, or the job you might want to apply for in five years.
• Protect your password and make sure you really know who someone is before you allow them onto your friends list
• That cute 14-year old boy may not be cute, may not be 14 and may not be a boy! You never know!
• Avoid in-person meetings.
• Check what your friends are posting/saying about you
• Think about how different social-networking sites work before deciding to join one.
• Be cautious about posting information that could be used to identify you or locate you offline.
• Remember that once you post information online, you can’t take it back. Even if you delete the information from a site, older versions exist on other people’s computers.
• Consider not posting your photo. It can be altered and broadcast in ways you may not be happy about.

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