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Are you the parent of a teenager? If so, there is a good chance that you are wondering about their safety online, as you should be. Although the internet has changed for the better, that change has made it easier for people to access the internet and pretend to be someone that they are not, someone who you would likely not want socializing with your child. For that reason, you are advised to take the proper action needed to protect your child when they are online, especially when they use online social networking websites.

Online social networking websites? What are they? If you are not an internet user yourself, you may be completely unaware of social networking websites, what they are, and how they operate. The first step in protecting your teen is to famialrize yourself with them. Social networking websites are known as online communities that aim to connect internet users with each other. Unfortunately, these social networks have become the stomping grounds for many online predators and who are they after? Teenagers and chances are your teen may be one of them.

When it comes to protecting your child, your first thought may be to prohibit the use of online networking websites. Of course, you can do this if you want to. You are the parent, you can do anything that you want; however, there is really no need to. Despite the fact that danger exists, social networking sites are relatively safe, even for teenagers. However, to be safe and stay safe, your teenager needs to know what to avoid and who to be on the lookout for. Essentially, this means that they best way to protect your child from online predators is to educate them on the danger that is out there.

One of the first things that you may want to discuss with your child is who they are talking with online. Although they may not want to give you an answer, you need to emphasize the importance of knowing who they are talking to. Since social networks work to connect individuals who do not physically know each other it may seem impossible, but it can be done. Your child should fully read and try to understand the content of their friend’s online profiles. This will enable them to watch out for inconsistent stories or any inaccurate information. Tell your teen that if they learn that someone is being untruthful they need to end the conversation right away.

In addition to who your teen is taking to, it is also important to learn what they are talking about. As with who they are talking to, your teenager may not want to give you a straight answer. Even if you are unable to get an answer out of them it is important to let them know what is appropriate and what is not. Be sure they know that it is best to completely avoid individuals who like to speak of sex, drugs, and other illegal activities. Although they may enjoy having a number of online friends, there are plenty of other individuals, especially teenagers, who would more than willing to have pleasant and harmless conversations with them.

Perhaps, the most important thing to discuss with your teenager about social networking sites is arranging physical meetings. Let them know that these meeting are unacceptable. There have been numerous reports, over the past few years, of teenagers being lured away from their home in hopes of meeting a new friend, who they thought was their age. Unfortunately, many of these online friends turn out to be older and, in many cases, sexual predators. In the event that your teenager wants to meet an online friend and you feel that they would with or without your permission, you may want to offer to go with them. Of course, it is advised that you use caution and all meet in a public place.

By keeping the above mentioned points in mind, your child should still be able to use social network sites, but use them safely. In addition to the above mentioned safety concerns and precautionary measures, you may have your own. Whether you do or not, it is important that you keep your child aware of the dangers that lurk online, awareness is the key.

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Online social networks have rapidly increased in popularity, especially over the past couple of years. Social networking websites are popular because they easily allow you to find, connect with, and develop friendships with other internet users, often ones that share the same interests as you. To find those individuals, you must join a social networking website and create a profile. It is often advertised that your social networking profile is the key to making and finding friends online.

As previously mentioned, your social networking profile is important when it comes to meeting other internet users. This is because, in most cases, internet users are looking to chat with someone who has the same goals, views, beliefs, and interests as they do. Without a personal profile, it would be difficult or impossible to tell what your interests are. That is why social networking profiles are not only important, but they are needed.

When it comes to social networking profiles, a lot of focus has been placed on what you should include in your profile or display on your profile page. It has been said that pictures produce the best responses, as well as detailed personal information. Although a picture and detailed personal information may help to increase your page views, you may be getting views that you do not necessarily want. Despite what you may believe, most social networking websites do not have restrictions on who can view your personal profile. In fact, internet users, even those that do not belong to your online community, can easily see profile.

Since anyone, literally anyone, can see your social networking profile, on most social networking websites, you are advised to be cautious. Essentially, this means that instead of focusing on what you should put in your online profile, you should be focusing on what not to put. This is one the best ways to protect your safety, both on and offline.

As previously mentioned, pictures are often recommended with social networking websites. If you are interested in positing a personal picture of yourself in your online profile you can do so, but you are advised to carefully choose that picture. While you will want to look your best, you are advised against posting a picture that is too revealing or seductive in nature. Most internet users can look at these types of pictures without feeling a thing, but for others these types of pictures spell danger.

If you make the decision to post a picture of yourself in your social networking website profile, you need to be careful about the rest of the information that you post. Although you may not necessarily think about it, a picture is just a picture, but combined with your name and address, it could be a deadly combination. You are advised to only post your first name in your profile. This will make it more difficult for anyone to try and contact you off of the internet.

It is also advised that you carefully choose your location. A large number of online social networking sites require that you select a city, as well as a state. If it is allowed, you may only wish to list your state and not the city. If you are required to list the city and the state that you live in, you may want to think about using a nearby city or town, especially if you live in a small town. If an internet predator wanted to contact you and you lived in a small town, it could be fairly easy for them to find you. That is why it is advised that you carefully select the answer to the location question.

In addition to the above precautionary measures, it is advised that you do not post detailed information on your children, the location of your home, your income, or when you will be leaving for vacation. By keeping these and the above mentioned points in mind, you should be able to enjoy online social networking without having to always look behind your back.

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For a while now, listeners and reader have been requesting something a little more from The NMP Network. Well, the time has come to finally unveil a new project that we’ve been working on here at the network.

Premium Content

For almost two years now, The NMP Network has given away everything free of charge, even though the network has spent it’s share of money to pickup a lot of these products, ideas, research and the like. Now though, we have the technology in place that enables us to offer premium content at a low price. This content won’t be some rehashed podcasting from past shows or something that we’ve scraped off of YouTube, however, it will be training videos, eBooks, software, PLR Articles and more that we will be offering nowhere else, but to our Paid Members.

Here’s how it will work:
There is four levels of membership available. The levels are:

Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum

Of course, we will still offer free content to non-paying members as we always have in the past. So don’t worry, we’re not going to just offer premium content and nothing else!

Now, for you non-paying members, you will get a “sneak peek” at the premium content pages, but not the entire post or page! Kind of just a taste. On each premium content post or page, you will be notified as to what level you need to subscribe at in order to view the entire post or page. This will also give you a link to login and signup for a membership.

Bronze Memberships are $4.99 per month.
You will get access to posts that have PLR Articles that you can freely copy and use along with a download link to download the complete article. There will be new articles posted daily along with a variety of niches to choose from.

Silver Memberships are $7.99 per month.
You will have access to the Bronze Membership posts and downloads along with PLR eBooks that will be available for download and you will be free to use them as you see fit. New PLR eBooks will be posted weekly or as they come available.

Gold Memberships are $9.99 per month.
You will access to the Bronze and Silver Membership posts and downloads along with PLR Software and MRR Software that will be available for download. New software titles will be posted monthly or as they come available.

Platinum Memberships are $14.99 per month.
You will have access to the Bronze, Gold and Silver Membership posts and downloads along with MRR eBooks that will be available for download. New titles will be posted monthly or as they come available. Along with your Platinum Membership, you will also receive access to special PLR Video Series and Audio Courses. These videos and audio courses will be added on a monthly basis or as they come available.

The NMP Network has been working for quite some time now to acquire these products. To date, we have more than 100,000 eBooks, software packages and videos in our inventory. This is just our way of giving back so that you don’t have to spend out a lot of money to try and get these products for yourself or to resell, give away or just try out!

The Premium Content will launch by December 7th, 2008. Watch for the special category that is setup for this content and get ready to enjoy some really special things coming down the road for The NMP Network!

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Now, don’t get too excited here, yes, we are returning to video, however, we will not go straight video again (probably ever, eh?). We will simulcast each Friday Night Show on Talkshoe and Stickam so that we can keep an eye on the live, streaming video and watch it catch up with today’s demanding audience.

Another reason for this return is that the stats for my live page at http://www.newmediapro.tv has been climbing steadily since we left producing our videos each week. This tells me that there is some demand for us to still do video as the numbers don’t lie!

I have chosen Stickam as my live, streaming server, since it had the best video quality overall. Beginning this Friday Night, October 10th, 2008, I will be back on audio and video at the same time. Now, if the video fails, that’s ok, as I expect it to not be much better as when I left it a couple of months back. However, as the services come up to speed, I will be able to tell this and will then begin to promote the video again and go back to doing more video productions as part of my show.

Any way, we’ll see how this goes. Also, in a couple of weeks, I will be doing a topic based on using video as a platform, so this will help me to research a little for that and to update me on what has changed.

I have changed the live page to add the live audio feed as well as the live video feed so you can easily get the show no matter which platform you want to use!

“See” you on Friday night!

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