New Software For Parents
Children today don't just have to worry about being bullied at school, but online as well. Just one example of this is the infamous case of a Massachusetts woman who pretended to be a teenager and harassed a 15-year old girl on Facebook until she was driven to suicide.
Instead of waiting for the laws to catch up with online bullying, parents now have the option of new software tools to stop their kids from being bullied online. ZoneAlarm SocialGuard from Check Point Software is a new program that allows parents to monitor their children's Facebook activities to see if they're bullying, being bullied, friending strangers or engaging in potentially dangerous activities. The software does not allow parents to actually view the child's profile or what they're posting, but instead they get alerts of anything that the software considers to be suspicious.