With the growing popularity of social networking sites, KidZui Inc. developed a web site which has been specifically designed for children belonging in the 3-12 age bracket.
Called as KidZui, this social network for kids provides less interactive features to make sure that children will not be susceptible to bad influences and other forms of manipulation. These are the only things users can utilize: sharing surfing experiences and attitude; tag contents on the web; profile viewing; content channel creation; add “friends” to the list; sign on and off which allows users to see if their “friends” are online; and post status message.
Compared to most conventional social community sites, the KidZui does only allow limited information sharing between two people and prohibits extensive sharing of personal details, write testimonials to a user’s profile site, and all kinds of free-form messages.
This site allows children to search for a certain topic by simply browsing the categories listed. To make sure that young people will not be able too access inappropriate sites which have sexual and violent contents, the website does not allow open access to the Internet.
The good thing about this social networking site is that the company hired parents and teachers who constantly visit the site to sanitize its contents and to delete if there is something improper being posted on this. These people also keep and maintain the database of various URLs which has been approved as child-friendly.
Another impressive service of KidZui is that it provides parents free reports which reveal the Internet browsing activities of their children.
Meanwhile, the company focuses on training parents on how to search for sites which are appropriate for young people, instead of using content-control software to prohibit access to some sites which have improper contents.
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