2023 Author: Anita Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-22 03:30
That's it, your child has reached the age to use Facebook. Maybe you need some tips to put yourself in a newbie's shoes and give them some advice? Here they are.
The moment your child has been waiting for is finally here, he opens his Facebook account. He imagines himself talking about his account at school, impressing his friends and playing games, without knowing that Facebook is much more than that. As soon as your child opens their account, they will need a little training. Without imposing yourself too much, explain the following few things to avoid shame and problems.
A child must be 13 years old to open a Facebook account, it's in the rules of the network. You might be tempted to let your 10, 11 or 12 year old open one anyway, telling yourself that it's no big deal. However, to open an account, your child will have to lie about his age… with your permission! On the other hand, the reason why the minimum age was set at 13 is one of maturity. A younger child will not necessarily have all the background to react well to everything that circulates on Facebook and will be all the more easy to fall into all sorts of traps against which thisarticle wants to warn you.
The basics: choosing your audience
Rather than having to choose only from posts dedicated to Close Friends, Friends and Acquaintances, young people starting on Facebook have the chance to build lists of effective outreach as they make new friends. This is incredible luck! It is much more difficult to do this when you have several hundred friends! Your child should therefore create lists, lots of lists, before too much knowledge is added to their contacts.
He can of course create lists like 'Soccer Team', 'School', 'Family', but he should also create ones that go with his personality. The 'Thought of the Day', 'Jokes', 'Hockey News' and 'Makeup Tips' lists are just a few possibilities that will help him share whatever he wants, without fear of boring others or to offend his Aunt Gertrude with dubious jokes. In addition, when he understands this principle, he will no longer be afraid to accept the members of his family in his Friends since he can show or hide the content according to his publications.
Also take the opportunity to explain to her the notion of "Friends", "Friends of friends" and "Public" so that her bikini photos and her more personal statuses do not end up on the people's page. 'he doesn't know, when it's not all over the web. Publications made in Public mode can really go a long way and be read by malicious people! Show ithim what you see on your news feed when he comments on public pages. It will encourage him to twist his finger seven times on the keyboard before posting!
The writings remain
Like everywhere, children should avoid hurtful remarks and threats. Moreover, from the age of 12, the child can be arrested, charged and stand trial in youth court for the acts he commits. The Canadian government launched an advertising campaign this year to make young people understand that cyberbullying is a crime. amendments to the Criminal Code are being considered to include the reality of new technologies, including mobile phones and social networks like Facebook. A “bad joke” or an indiscreet photo shared on his account can really embarrass him, and more. It's a think about it!
Children should therefore avoid sharing compromising photos that could follow them for a long time, and never share or post such photos on their Facebook account, even if they find it very funny at the time. We can think of photos containing nudity, but also of dubious photos like those which had put the Rimouski candidate of the CAQ in the embarrassment at the last provincial elections.
Supervise to avoid humiliation
There are a few places on Facebook where inexperienced youngsters can really gettalk about all the names when giving their opinion on a subject. If you don't believe me, try talking sweetly about your love of meat on an article that talks about vegetarianism, or saying that riding a bike is awesome on some opinion radio station pages! Unless he is deliberately trying to shock by giving his opinion, your child may be surprised and even hurt by the virulence with which he will be greeted.
If we, at our age, have trouble never putting a foot in our mouths, imagine how difficult it is for a 13-year-old child to assess the consequences of certain comments. It is better to help him a little and regularly check his interventions on Facebook.
There are plenty of other ways to goof off on Facebook. Forgetting that comments made under our name then appear in search engines, for example. Or by "liking" a dozen photos of the most beautiful girl in the class all at once, which will see multiple mentions of the type "Xavier likes Noémie's photo" appear in her feed. And that in addition, all of Noémie's friends will know about it and so on!
Try to cover all the possibilities as it explores Facebook and its multiple possibilities which are also traps for inexperienced people.
A target audience
You also need your child to realize that every click makes them a target audience. If he "likes" a product, a singer, a car, aTV show and completes 100 Buzzfeed surveys, he will give out that much information about his preferences each time, which will make him a target audience for advertising. The minimum is that he is aware of this reality.
Unfortunately, they can also be a target audience for scams. For example, if a cute girl he doesn't know suddenly becomes interested in your teenager, tell him to decline the invitation. Scams are developed by malicious people who specifically target teenagers, sometimes to extort money from them or blackmail them when it is not an adult who hides behind a false identity of teenager!
Finally, warn him against links called “videoshock! ". These are often viruses that share content on his behalf, without him realizing it.
