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What is Guardian?
Guardian is a Facebook Application that is currently in BETA designed to help monitor multiple Facebook Accounts or "Targets". With Guardian, a user can add up to 5 Targets to be monitored. A daily email PDF report will be sent for each Target being monitored.How Does Guardian Work?
The Sign Up link will establish a user account with Guardian. Verify that all users on the computer are logged out of Facebook. After creating a user account, click Add Target and the Facebook Login page will be displayed. Enter the Facebook Email and Password credentials for the Target to be monitored and click Log In. Confirm addition of the selected Target. The Guardian application is installed within the Target’s application section of Facebook allowing permission for the application to read Facebook activity.Each user will receive a daily email with a PDF report for each Target. The report will contain the Target’s current Profile information, New Friends, New Wall Posts, New Photos and New Notification of Tagged Photos. When Facebook releases new API’s for email and chat, Guardian will leverage this additional content in the daily PDF report.
Guardian uses a Global Censored Word list combined with a user customized Censored Word List. Any censored posts will be yellow highlighted within the email report. This is an easy way to quickly review the Target’s report for suspicious activity. The customized censored word list can also be used to highlight all posts with a particular friend by adding the friends name to the customized list.
Within the Guardian application a user can add or delete Targets, review a Target’s Facebook Profile and retrieve the last 7 PDF reports generated for each Target.
Why did I create Guardian?
I am the stepfather to two daughters (11 and 13 years old). My wife and I were very concerned when the eldest began asking for a Facebook account. We wanted to be sure she was mature enough to understand the proper use of Social Networking.Bullying has changed dramatically since I was young. A push in the hall, some name calling, a fight after school was probably the worst of it. Today, technology has provided many more forms to bully children. These forms reach much greater audiences and the affects last much longer.
1 in 4 teenagers will be the victim of some form of Cyberbullying.
Children are using the Internet, text messaging, emails, picture mail, and so on. As parents, how can we keep up? Guardian is designed to supplement the conversations with our children, the inspecting of their phones, accessing their Facebook accounts and the checking of their emails. By using Guardian, I can only hope that suspicious activity might be caught quicker.
How much does it cost?
Currently, Guardian is free. I do of course accept donations. If this can help just one parent uncover a potential threat, it will be worth all the time and effort that I invest in this project.Things to remember:
Guardian is currently in BETA. To help improve the application, please send feedback and questions via the Contact Us link.Guardian is intended to be a supplement, not a solution. Have the conversations with your children. Be upfront and factual. They will not always know when they are in over their heads, we need to be their guides as they grow and mature. I know this is not an easy task since children think that they know everything. I frequently inform our children that the older they become, the smarter we (as parents) become.