Company brings parenting to Facebook

People can now take their parenting skills to Facebook.

EyeGuardian allows parents to keep tabs on all of their children's Facebook activity. Parents can look at who their children are friends with, who they've recently added, comments, messages, and the images and videos are being shared with them.

EyeGuardian subscribers can see where each instance of "suspect" content is, and the parents can then decide whether to label the content as appropriate or delete it from Facebook, according to EyeGuardian's website. Parents can also track how much time their kids spend playing games and threats to privacy on Facebook.

Parents can be alerted when their children receive friend requests from people that are much older their child, or that don't have many connections to them. Once people sign up for the service, they can decide which profiles they want to watch, then the user makes sure EyeGuardian is connected to each profile, according to the company's website.

The company also can scan images and videos for nudity posted to people, their friends, friends of friends, or connected to their profile in any other way. Users can receive messages directly to their smart phone about the inappropriate activity.

The service is free.

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