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Google Alerts tips for monitoring your kids online

by Adam Green on April 12, 2009

in Child safety, Google Alerts

@Openzine on Twitter has a tweet that he repeats fairly regularly that parents should set up Google Alerts on their kids’ names. This always gets a good response, so I thought I’d try to add to this list with some other details about your kids’ lives you should track on Google Alerts.

  1. Their cell phone number.
  2. Their social security number.
  3. The name of their school.
  4. The names of their teachers.
  5. If they belong to a team, the names of their coaches.
  6. The names of their babysitters.
  7. Their doctor’s and dentist’s names.
  8. The name of their summer camp, and the names of the camp director and their counselors.
  9. The name of your family’s religious leader and Sunday school teachers.
  10. Let’s see how paranoid we can get. How about the names of their friends’ parents?
  11. If they are at college, use a Google News Alert with the domain name of their school. You don’t include the http://. For example, harvard.edu.
  12. Their college roomate’s name.
  13. If they are traveling to another country, you can set up an alert for US State Department advisories for the city or country they will be visiting: barcelona site:travel.state.gov
  14. The make and model of their car, and the word recall.
  15. The names of their medications and the word recall.

This whole exercise is a little paranoia inducing, right? Or maybe this is a great Web service just waiting to be created.

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