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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Togetherville : Facebook for Kids


Although Facebook has rules prohibiting the registration of membership under 13 years old, could have children under the age of falsified identity. The reason? Maybe out of curiosity or influence of friends. In fact, Facebook contains many dangerous and not worthy of the content they see.

This is where the role of parents is required. It's good, they introduce children to the virtual world and also guide how to socialize via the networking site.

Togetherville facilitate those needs. This networking site designed specifically for children up to age 13 years, despite the focus on target customers range 60-10 years.

Similar to Facebook, this site has a variety of entertaining and educational content, like applications, games, and video. Of course, everything is through the screening process so that children are safe for consumption.

To join Togetherville, a child must be registered by the parents via Facebook. Children can not arbitrarily ask for or accept friendship invitations from other children without parents consent.

To be more secure, this site knows no anonymity, such as the use of nickname and avatar. Profile must contain full name and original photos. In essence, the child protection Togetherville support, while the child's activity would be fully supervised by a parent.

According to the New York Times, the idea of making a special social networking blaze on the brain child Mandeep Dhillon (founder and CEO Togetherville), several years ago.

Zoraver, four-year-old son when it already knew how to capture images through his father's computer. Zoraver and wanted to share the photo to her family via Facebook, but do not allow Dhillon. He worried about his son influenced the adverse effects of social networking.

"Based on that experience, I developed the concept Togetherville," concluded Dhillon.

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