When I was a youngster there wasn’t much you could do to block me from accessing most websites out there, and there certainly weren’t a lot of websites designed specifically for the kids or teen demographics. But now, with child safety being an important parental concern for online activity and the potential for massive marketing to kids and teens, a plethora of sites, browsers, software and tools have emerged in the years since worrying about what someone will say to me in an AOL chat room.

Below is a list of the top ten sites and browsers out there for the kids and teens of today.
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A new study from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in the United Kingdom reports that more British parents are using newer technology to stay connected with their children away at school, according to AllHeadlines.

Now, my mother and I weren’t always the best of friends, but while in college I still called her every Sunday afternoon. Back then, I called her on her landline. She rarely used her cell phone and had no idea how to send or receive text messages. Things have changed in the past few years, and my mother now happily embraces her Blackberry, email and LinkedIn. But how much easier would things have been if my mother had been on an online social network when I was in college?
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