BeNetSafe Adds Friendster to Online Child Safety Search Service.Parents Need Tools to Help Kids Stay Safe While Online - with News of Rep. Mark Foley Mark Adam Foley (born September 8, 1954) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida. and Other Accused Internet Predators, BeNetSafe Stepped-up Production Schedule to Become Only Service to Cover All Three Major Social Networking Sites A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together. Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures, likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post. SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- With the latest onslaught of media covering how the Internet is used to aggressively go after children in a sexual manner, www.BeNetSafe.com today announced the expansion of its Internet-based chaperone chaperone /chap·er·one/ (shap´er-on) someone or something that accompanies and oversees another. molecular chaperone search service to include Friendster (www.friendster.com), one of the Internet's three most popular social networking sites. www.BeNetSafe.com is the only online service to monitor the three most popular networking sites used by children under 18 years of age: MySpace, Xanga and now Friendster. After recent news of how children are being approached on the Internet, political scandals A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians or government officials engage in various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices. A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws or plotting to do so. of improprieties involving the Internet, and a dedicated television program, "To Catch a Predator To Catch a Predator is a series of hidden camera investigations by the television newsmagazine Dateline NBC devoted to the subject of identifying and detaining potential child sexual abusers who contact children (or what they believe to be children) over the ," which shows grown men approaching minors on the Web, the BeNetSafe team stepped-up their development schedule to add additional networking sites to its monitoring service The general surveillance of known air traffic movements by reference to a radar scope presentation or other means, for the purpose of passing advisory information concerning conflicting traffic or providing navigational assistance. . Xanga was added to the service only a few weeks ago, and the team of engineers hopes to add more social networking sites each month, all for the same price of $79.95 a year, or $19.95 a month. "There is a real major issue going on with children and the Internet, and we think it is urgent we add the most popular sites that children frequent to our service," explains Michel Edelson, father of triplets and co-founder and president of www.BeNetSafe.com. "If well known politicians, such as Rep. Mark Foley - a staunch supporter of The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC NCMEC National Center for Missing & Exploited Children NCMEC National Concrete and Masonry Engineering Conference ) - are aggressively using the Internet to go after children, or much younger people, and they know they are being watched, what do parents think is happening at home under their own roofs? These are scary scar·y adj. scar·i·er, scar·i·est 1. Causing fright or alarm. 2. Easily scared; very timid. scar times and parents need to take action and do more than just tell our kids not to talk to strangers. Pedophiles know what they are doing when they go after our kids online - and they are relentlessly successful." This addition marks a major expansion for www.BeNetSafe.com, which launched in August, with designs to become the number one tool parents use to keep their children safe online. The service notifies parents if their child's name, phone number, school, address or other confidential information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead is being given out to others while networking online. About BeNetSafe www.BeNetSafe.com is an automated technology search solution and resource center for parents to chaperone their kids online at social networking sites. Founded by two technology veterans with more than 20 years of experience in the software development industry, www.BeNetSafe.com is subscription-based and delivers easy-to-read reports to parents on their children's online activity on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. For more information, go to www.BeNetSafe.com. |
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