“Sharenting” Spread Awareness among Parents by Norton Security Team

Due to generation gap between children and parents, most of the aged parents find difficulty in understanding the security workings of any social site. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc they all have their own ways of protecting a file from getting into wrong hands. “Sharenting” a new term being introduced for parents about the activities perform online for their children. In the following blog we will know about this term and how to avoid the display of confidential family information by any unauthorized person.

Sharenting or oversharenting is a term describing by overuse of social sites by parents to share confidential contents about their children, in other words sharing too much information online. These contents can be a naked child playing a ball, potty training or other files that can cause embarrassment to a teenage kid among his/her friends.

Parents are advised to be careful with this stuff as it is quiet sensitive matter for a child to recognize as a cry baby among peers. Norton security community has provided some instructions for parents on following them only selected authorized personnel will access to that info –

1)      Check the info and set the privacy settings on the social site. Always remember tag on friend who you can trust with this information before sharing anything

2)     Check your child digital footprint (browser history), if you are in the photos untag from it immediately

3)      Be a responsible parent and think before posting anything online, as you are a responsible parent it is important to take care of your child feelings.

If there is any problem in setting privacy setup please contact official Norton Antivirus tech support and be in peace of mind to making sure information security.

However there are third party support companies who are available 24*7 to give further assistance with any query if user is unable to get information for official support. We as third party firm give assistance to our customer in any issue. To contact us just give a call on our toll free number mentioned on our official web site.