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I would like to share with you the following article from The Wall Street Journal:

How to Prepare Your Facebook Profile for Graph Search for Matthew Lynley

It seems like Facebook is preparing to launch soon a new function that will allow deep content searches from Facebook.

According to Facebook, this new search option allows users to make searches related to anything that has been shared on Facebook in the past

With Graph Search, you can look up anything shared with you on Facebook, and others can find stuff you’ve shared with them, including content set to Public. That means different people see different results. According to Facebook you can then search for people, places and things in a new way that has not been possible before.

Privacy options will allow users to decide what information can be shared.

This is where it gets tricky, everything sounds great if we all take the time to check the privacy settings of our Facebook accounts.

I took a few minutes to do the experiment to check the configuration of my account and follow the steps outlined by the article mentioned above, only to realize that in my Facebook privacy settings, Facebook had assigned that any future post I did was going to be visible by the general public and not my friends only.

I have to admit that I was so surprised and shocked by this, that I decided to consult a colleague and I asked her to check the same privacy setting that I had been looking and she found the same exact result, any future post of her would be share with the general public and not her friends only.

Do we have all the time to keep up with our Facebook privacy profile? This is something we should think about it.

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I read the following interesting article that appear in Time Magazine on August 6, 2012:

Please send tweets by Bonnie Rochman

The article explains how camps find new ways to placate obsessive kids – and parents. There is a new service that many camps offer that allows parents to communicate with kids via Parent’s Portal through the service of bunk1.com.

It also allows the camp to post pictures daily for the parents to view their campers.

The communication that bunk1.com offers goes far beyond sending email messages it also allows campers to receive a certain number of tweets per day.

I think this is really interesting, can you remember back when were a kids? How lucky we were to be able to disconnect so easy from technology.

I know every camp has their own guidelines about what type of communication and electronic device they allow, such as no cell phones, no devices with internet access, etc.

One one hand I know that we need to help our children slow down and disconnect from the internet and all electronic devices, but on the other hand that also means we need to also disconnect ourselves, and it’s very hard. My son is in camp and I made a point of writing him letters the first week he was away. For the second week I decided to subscribe to the bunk1.com service, because let’s be honest. It’s a lot easier for me to write a message in the computer than to write a letter.

Are you the type of parent that would rather exchange regular mail with your kids while at camp instead of email? Do you even think it’s possible? What do you think is the ideal balance?

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