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Two studies each arrived at the opposite conclusion.

Social networking is bad for you:

Social networking is good for you: 

And in just plain weird science news: your brain’s physical structure may correlate with your method of using social networks.

Most of you know how much I like our Norton Online Family parental control software. Not only is it very easy to use but it just works. Each parent can find the balance they want between limiting dangerous or inappropriate online content, setting boundaries around the appropriate amount of time spent online and allowing our the protection to adjust with our children’s developing maturity and skill. The Norton Online Family team has designed it to respect parent and child relationships, to encourage communication about safe Internet use and to help reinforce House Rules. House Rules have been shown to decrease the chance a young person encounters online risk. How marvelous when good parenting skills combine with free technology to help our young people enjoy the Internet in safety.

As our children increasingly access the internet via mobile devices, a new challenge in helping port those House Rules to these devices has arisen. 1 in 3 children access the web on a mobile device, be it a cell phone, tablet or other item. Today we introduce a great additional tool in Norton Safety Minder: Mobile Edition. The Norton Safety Minder is the small application each computer protected with your Norton Online Family account must have. The new Norton Safety Minder: Mobile Edition is the small application for your Android mobile device.