Recently, I discussed with other teachers about social awareness in social networking and one asked "Do they have a safe social Netwoking for kids?" then I tried to find out and I found one.. 'Imbee'. Let's find out with yourself and you will love it.
Imbee is a safer social networking site that allows the young, hip and trendy to share and connect with friends, their lives and their world through a “one-of-a-kind” social media experience. Share playlists, make new global friends, chat with friends, share your videos, get your daily scope, connect with celebs, and much more.
At imbee.com, kids can participate in a variety of creative activities, including creating their own blogs and personalizing them with their own images or with artwork from one of the many custom imbee galleries; uploading graphics or music files; and exchanging messages with their friends.
For parents, imbee.com provides tools that enable them to better guide their children as they begin to develop those important digital skill sets and judgment necessary to make their personal online experiences fun, educational, and empowering.
Thinnakorn,
ReplyDeleteImbee is new for me but I like it. It specifically designed for 8-14 year olds(Yeahh! for my primary students)and their families. The wonderful thing that I like of Imbee is it offers different parental controls to empower adults help kids more safely network in the digital world. How great! Thank you for raising this issue.
Hi Thinnakorn:
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your discovery of imbee.com, the social networking website for kids. I went to the reference website you supplied and learned that there have been some marketing problems with the website. According to the blog writer, Michael Dermody the imbee.com website was launched in 2009 and was going strong and then it disappeared without prior or proper notification to its membership population. Now in September 2010 the website is back and according to Mr. Dermody the site creators are putting a lot of efforts into advertizing the relaunch of the site, but the young kids do not seem to be returning.
Please advise if you have any additional information about imbee's current membership status. Also, were you able to discover any expanation(s) as why the website abruptly disappeared previously?
~Aja
~Aja
Hello Bro.Thinnakorn
ReplyDeleteThis blog topic is very interesting because it is the issue that our classmates are discussing.
I agree with you that Imbee.com is useful for both kids and parents.
Kids can create activities, create their own blogs, uploade graphics or music files; and exchanging messages with peers. In addition parents can use it as a tool to guide their children to develop skills especially "knowlege skills. I look forward to following your contents next time.
Hi Bro. Thinnakorn,
ReplyDeleteBenjamas said that parents can control their kids on the use of this website. How does it work?
Benjamas, Thank for your comment! Imbee tries to fill the gap of social awareness in social networking. Internet can be only for adult if security concern is ignored! Imbee is still new for us but it’s a good starting point for safer social networking for kids. Hope your students may like it…( if not exactly) .. their parents will love it.
ReplyDelete~Aja, It’s a good point that you raised this issue, thank you! That’s a problem of this new social networking! It’s popularity is still far away from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, My Space etc. Personally, I don’t exactly know what happened during it’s time of disappearing! These are some information that might lead to such a problem.
ReplyDeleteThe charges against Industrious Kid, Inc., and owner Jeanette Symons, the operators of imbee.com. Read more at http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/settlements/10739/imbee-data-collection.html
The sudden death of Jeanette Symons, co-founder of Imbee.com on Feb 1, 2008, Read more at http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=9718
Wilairat, Thank for your comment! I am happy to know that my topic is useful for you and your classmate. Imbee.com is trying to promote a safe site with parental control. It’s target audience may not be kids but parents! Just imagine how the parents will be happy to know that their small kids are involving in save environment on cyber space.
ReplyDeleteThank you Ornisa for you question! Imbee is just getting started and it’s very new to us. Here, I want to quote the word of Tim Donovan, which I fully agree with him. “The Internet is not just for adults, it is also for kids, and kids deserve their own spaces online that cater to their own interests and needs without a barrage of advertising. Developers of online spaces for children should acknowledge the need to develop ENGAGING environments for them that do more than entertain and serve as conduits for targeted advertising.” Tim Donovan of Imbee.com
ReplyDeleteImbee provides all the basic functions of other social networking services, except for chat. What’s most interesting are the parent controls. An adult with a credit card is required to create an Imbee account. That adult can then choose whether new blog posts, comments to and from their child and new friend requests will require parental approval before being passed through to the child’s account. If moderation isn’t selected, parents still receive email summaries of their kid’s activities. Read more at http://techcrunch.com/tag/imbee/
Hi Thinnakorn:
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for supplying the additional background information about about the imbee.com lawsuit as well as the death of Jeanette Symons, co founder of Imbee.com. I like the parental features that imbee.com offers and that parents can select the option to get email summaries of their kid's activities.
This is a great and interesting blog posting topic.
It is nice to see a social network designed with more security ensuring that people are who they say are and that can be used for educational purposes. However as stated in previous comments Imbee went offline and lost a large portion of its audience and it looks like its not getting them back. I think Imbee's tool set should be incorporated into other sites, but Imbee itself probably won't last.
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ReplyDeletesafer social networking site that allows the young, hip and trendy to share and connect with friends
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