Togetherville
Teaching Now reports on a new social networking site for the 10-and-under crowd. It’s called Togetherville.
I confess that my initial reaction was: Gee whiz! No! Shouldn’t kids under ten be doing something else?
It’s getting great reviews, though, from the WSJ, NYT and Wired, who all like Togetherville’s safe environment and family participation. Geek Dad says:
One of the challenges for the newest generation is how to gain fluency in online networking without being able to draw on large, diverse social networks of their own. Today, Togetherville announced the open beta launch of a new online community for kids and their caretakers. The site brings parents into the same virtual space as their children to help them mentor kids to be good digital citizens.
So I decided to look on the positive side: the possibility of my one day getting messages from family small fry who are unlikely to call or write.
