Your children on Facebook: learn to use this social network
Although Facebook is a great tool, we must know well how and why to use it in order to get the most out of it.
Today everyone is connected to social networks like Facebook , regardless of gender or age. And although this is a great tool, we must know well how and why to use it in order to get the most out of it.
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WHAT IS FACEBOOK AND WHAT IS IT FOR?
Facebook is one of the social networks created in the United States that in 2013 reached a total of 1,230 million users , although there are individuals who have more than one account. Therefore, Facebook is a large online community that connects people from all over the world through a simple invitation to friendship.
IT IS ADVISABLE TO KEEP A SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
This tool has many options in addition to the simple chat . Each user has a main screen, which on Facebook they call a wall, where you can post your photos, write your statuses (whatever you want to express at that time to all your friends) and even add links from other social networks such as Instagram, Twitter or Youtube , for example.
Each person who uses Facebook has their own list of friends , who will also have their own wall and share other things with everyone else. Things that you can comment on, click the button you like or share with your own friends.
The main function of Facebook is, therefore, to connect as many people as possible through the computer or mobile phone, passing through our filter of lived experiences, familiarity and hobbies.
HOW FACEBOOK WORKS
Registering in this social network is very simple , you only need to be of legal age, have a computer, a tablet or a mobile phone and an email account.
Facebook is a free service, since it lives off the advertising that will constantly appear on the home page (where we will see everything that our friends have added throughout the day in chronological order).
The program requires that your data be valid in order to avoid future identity theft , so we can report any problem or abuse that we are suffering to the technical assistance of the page.
TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT THE PROBLEMS AND DANGERS OF THE INTERNET
AT WHAT AGE SHOULD I ALLOW TO USE FACEBOOK
Anyone can open a Facebook account or even more than one , since, as we have said, you only need a valid email address to access the social network.
And since opening an email account is also very simple and free, sometimes there are people who misuse them. Therefore, if we want to protect our children from the dangers of the Internet, it is better not to let them use Facebook until they are of legal age , as the page itself indicates.
If our underage children access social networks they can be exposed to serious problems such as bullying between classmates or children , sending inappropriate photos due to innocence or ignorance of the power of defamation of the Internet and even people who want to meet out of the network with our minor children and may cause physical or psychological harm to the child .
On the other hand, if our underage children use the network, when playing with Facebook applications or games, they may accidentally want to buy an accessory for the game and are not aware, as children, of what this can generate.
Thus, Facebook is a social network designed for adults (and although it has filters of violence and sex) there are many content shared on the page that are not appropriate for our children under eighteen years of age.
Unfortunately, we cannot always protect our children from social networks, since we can block the computer we have at home , but perhaps not the mobile phone that they carry around all day.
IF WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN FROM THE DANGERS OF THE INTERNET, IT IS BETTER NOT TO LET THEM USE FACEBOOK UNTIL THEY ARE OF LEGAL AGE
TIPS AND LIMITS OF USE
Facebook is a social network that can be highly addictive. Since your content is organic and constantly being regenerated, there can always be something to see . However, we must try not to spend too much time in front of the computer or other electronic media such as mobile phones and tablets, since it is not good for our health . In addition to the time we spend looking at the posts shared by our friends and acquaintances, we must also limit the contact list on our page.
From time to time our advice is that we should eliminate those people with whom we have no relationship and we should not accept strangers (even if we are of legal age), since on Facebook we share many personal documents, which at first glance we would not teach a person that we do not know of anything or friends that we have not had a relationship with for more than ten years.
Therefore, it is advisable to keep a small circle of friends and acquaintances on the page and only share the necessary information, that is, not to publish too intimate photographs or give private opinions that may hurt or transform our image.
We must bear in mind that everything we publish on Facebook is written down and our contacts can access it whenever they want, so it is better not to say and post things that we may regret later .
That should be the case, even more so, if you decide to add your co-workers or family members to your account. Remember that just as you can see all their information they can also see yours. Like everything on the Internet, Facebook used wisely is a great page to preserve friendship , although it should not supplant face-to-face relationships under any circumstances.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.
