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Facebook has reacted with privacy changes, some of which have even weakened prior privacy settings. If you use FB, you need to know and understand how much of what everyone in and outside of your circle of friends can see. If you only have your spouse, a few relatives and a few close friends on Facebook, it probably doesn’t matter at all if they see you’ve just commented on someone’s political post on their FB page. However, if work colleagues or prospective employers are among your “friends,” you probably want to be more circumspect. Even if everyone knows you play Farmville, do you want all these people to see every time you buy a cow? Do you want everyone to see each time you’re tagged on a photo? The list goes
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Warning: new Facebook scams may be bigger lures for parents
July 22, 2010 – 1:58 PM
I’ve been in the internet for 15 years, worked in data security at Visa, and most recently at Yahoo!, and still I was “phished” by a Yahoo! ID scam a few weeks ago. It was pretty tame stuff. The scammers sent an email with another phishing link to my entire address book, but did not appear to do any other damage before I changed my password.
With all the data we all keep, not to mention the data of our “friends,” it’s best to always stay guarded when tempted to enter your password online.
Here’s the new ones going around, courtesy of Mashable:
Be a dad hero – make a Word Search puzzle using your child’s name
March 25, 2010 – 10:40 PM
You used to have to buy special software to makes puzzles like Word Search, or worse, tediously type out letters in rows to hide key words. DiscoveryEducation.com, however, has an easy to use Puzzlemaker where you type in your words and it spits this out with a list of the words you chose for him or her. So much better than the self-serving ones you get on the restaurant kids menu. Here, you can hide his name, key events, and lots of subliminal power or mommy and daddy. … He can’t read yet, but he was able to recognize Wii and his name. 
Sorry about our broken header on GreatDad.com/GreatDadBlog
January 21, 2010 – 11:12 AM
It’s been out of order for 3 days after I tried to “automatically” update the WordPress software. If anyone has a quick fix, let me know. Otherwise, we’ll try to get it back to normal tomorrow.
Options for dads with young kids who want email
December 1, 2009 – 4:10 PM
Some day soon my daughter is going to “require” email though, I’m sure since she has many friends whose parents are more liberal than we are when it comes to these things. … This site is subscription based and allows communication, IM and video, between a very limited number of people and was designed more for kids and faraway relatives than it is for young girls. … Another is My Secret Circle , a USB-based device that allows your daughter (this is a “girl-oriented” product) to connect with friends in a safe and secure environment. … While kids need private spaces, 8-10 year old kids are still very young to have completely private online spaces that might need to be monitored in many very easily imaginable situations. … While this site does not have email, it does have many of the functions that My Secret Circle has like forums and IM with one key difference: it is completely monitored in the background by adults who see every word written.
