#1 Parents must have the password The password is the key to unlock the door for full access into your child’s Facebook profile. It must be shared with the parents and only with the parents! This is essential for accountability and building trust in the relationship as it allows parents to spot check the News Feed and Inbox from time to time....

It’s hard to resist the siren call of a friend request on Facebook. Sure it’s a little childish, but who doesn’t want the world to know they have one more friend? It’s harmless enough until you realize you’d rather not have the guy who teased you mercilessly in grade 8 looking at your family’s beach vacation pics.  How do you unfriend...

CTV News reports that Facebook "has now made half a billion friends, meaning one in every 14 people on Earth has joined the social networking website, the company confirmed this week." Those 500,000,000 registered users generate a total of 1,000,000,000 (one billion) hits per day to Facebook's website. At this point, is there any chance that...

Far more people in Canada used the Internet for "personal interactions" last year than those who didn't. According to Statistics Canada, "Eighty per cent of Canadians age 16 and over used the Internet for personal reasons in 2009, up from 73 per cent two years earlier." I was a bit surprised that only 80% used the Internet. Less surprising is that...

Yesterday was "Quit Facebook Day." People pledged to quit Facebook due to concerns about their privacy. In recent weeks there have been many concerns raised regarding Facebook's privacy policies, but one group of people who benefit from the openness of peoples' online information is divorce lawyers, as reported by CNN: "Facebook is a great source...

Recent college graduates are often warned about the potential for racy Facebook photos to cost them a job, but did you know it happens to grown-ups too?   This morning a candidate in Canada’s upcoming provincial election stepped down after inappropriate photos surfaced on his Facebook account. Ray Lam was the NDP candidate in the tony False...

With today's instant updates of Twitter and Facebook, we are able to communicate with each other in minutes and seconds, a far cry from the olden days of waiting days and weeks for mail to arrive. How could our seemingly insatiable need to know what others are doing right this minute change the future of social networking? [display_podcast] Are...