Social gaming seems to be an ever growing network and a big topic for us this here at SocialShield this week. We talked about Moshi Monsters hitting its 50 million user mark earlier this week, and today we're discussing the latest gaming application on Facebook - The Sims. Gaming company Electronic Arts recently announced plans to….read more

A few weeks ago, kids' social gaming site Moshi Monsters reached 50 million registered users. While Moshi Monsters is more of a gaming site than a specific kids' social network like imbee or Everloop, this is still a significant number representing the growing wave of kids spending time online in some kind of social game or community.   A few….read more

Next time your kids want to send out a Facebook invite to some of their friends, have a little talk with them about this young girl's Facebook flub. A few weeks ago Thessa, a teenager from Hamburg, Germany, set up a Facebook event to organize a small party for family and friends to celebrate her 16th birthday. However,….read more

New Facebook settings are causing a stir amongst users. The new facial recognition feature - initially released to users in the United States back in December - was rolled out globally last week. When photos are uploaded, the feature automatically detects friends' faces in the photos, and then presents the "Tag Suggestions" that should go along….read more

After all of the drama and speculation of last week, Rep. Anthony Weiner finally admitted yesterday to sending inappropriate photos to various women online. If you haven't been able to follow everything that's been going on with this New York Democrat, a tweet was sent over a week ago from Weiner's….read more

Last week Twitter officially announced its plans to launch its own photo-sharing service for users, which will allow them to include photos easier and faster within tweets. Teaming up with Photobucket to launch the feature, this new form of photo-sharing could minimize the need for outside apps like Twitpic or Yfrog. Twitter is also working with mobile….read more

The school year will be ending this month for most kids and parents may be worried about the increase in free time and decrease in supervision their kids will start to have, especially when spending time online. Whether kids are staying up late and sleeping in, or are enrolled in camps, lessons or other organized activities….read more

Anyone with at least one social networking profile could learn a little something from Friendster. The networking site, while not as popular or well known as Facebook or other social networks, is asking all users to export any profile data, photos, messages, comments, blogs and other user content from the site by May….read more

If you - or your kids - need another reason not to overshare online, a new study may provide just that. Research done by The Co-Operative Travel, a UK-based travel agency, along with Co-operative Insurance, conducted a study in which they found that Twitter and Facebook updates containing details of vacation plans….read more

Three researchers from Columbia University have completed a study determining Facebook users' perceptions of their privacy settings. By tracking and interviewing 65 students aged 18 to 25, they found that every single one of the participants were sharing personal information in ways they hadn't intended when setting up their privacy settings. While 95% of participants were initially confident that their….read more