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Guardian
What is Guardian?
Guardian is a Facebook Application that is currently in BETA and designed to help monitor multiple Facebook Accounts or "Targets". With Guardian, a user can add up to 5 Targets to be monitored. A PDF Report will be emailed daily for each Target the user is monitoring.
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.
UPDATE: Target's Inboxes are
now included in the daily scan and report.
Read More
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.
Read More About Cyberbullying.
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, we 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.