January 2012
1 post
GoGoStat Keeps Parents Up To Date on Their Kids'...
The GoGoStat team was pleased to see GoGoStat Parental Guidance mentioned in Positive Impact Magazine as a tool for parents to keep up with what is happening with their kids on Facebook. A big thank you to Michelle Phillips for writing her article Protecting Your Child’s Beauty in the Cyber Age, that gives parents some much needed advice when it comes parenting in the digital era....
September 2011
1 post
Sorry, Wrong Inbox
We recently came across an opinion article from the New York Times called Sorry, Wrong Inbox. Frank Bruni writes,
You hear so much about how instantly reachable we all are, how hyperconnected, with our smartphones, laptops, tablets and such. But the maddening truth is that we’ve become so accessible we’re often inaccessible, the process of getting to any of us more tortured and tortuous than...
July 2011
3 posts
An Alternative to Banning
Mexico based tech blog TMC-IT recently had an article that gives advice to parents who do not want to completely ban their kids from sites like Facebook, but still want their kids to be safe.
One of the tools they recommended to parents was GoGoStat Parental Guidance. They mentioned that they especially liked how the app notified parents of when their child reveals profile details that should...
GoGoStat Helps Stop Cyberbullying
Parents who have had a child that has been cyberbullied know that when they want it to completely stop now and forever, there is no app for that. The good news is, apps like our GoGoStat Parental Guidance can help to avert it.
We would like to thank Yeshiva University for including our free app in their post 5 Apps That Could Help Stop Cyberbullying. The GoGoStat Team and parents of kids on...
Utilizing GoGoStat To Keep Internet Predators at...
We were very excited to see a mention of GoGoStat Parental Guidance in Mary Kay Hoal’s Yoursphere Blog. The post raises awareness among parents about the dangers on social networks that are in the form of internet sexual predators. Not only does she raise awareness, she goes on to give advice for parents of Facebook kids. Her advice is simple: have an ongoing conversation with your kids...
May 2011
3 posts
Parental Guidance featured as an app to help avert...
We would like to thank Nancy Flanders of Parenting Squad for featuring GoGoStat Parental Guidance in her article on apps that can assist parents in helping their kids avert cyberbullying! Thanks for spreading the word. Check out her article, 3 Apps To Protect Your Child From Cyber Bullies.
Safety Minus the Spying
Came across this article about GoGoStat Parental Guidance today, perfect title for a blog post on this particular child monitoring app:
When it comes to GoGoStat Parental Guidance, we always want to stress that its purpose is for parents to monitor their children on Facebook, not spy on them. Spying means that a person being watched does not know who is watching them, or even that they are...
Parental Guidance listed as a best monitoring tool
A big thank you to Amy and guest blogger Tom for including GoGoStat Parental Guidance in the blog post 7 Best Tools to Monitor Your Children’s Online Activity in the Earnest Parenting blog. It is much appreciated!
April 2011
1 post
GoGoStat Connect, featured in The Guardian Apps...
There has been alot of talk about the Telefonica’s new BlueVia Platform. Check out this blog post mentioning how GoGoStat Connect leverages the benefits of the BlueVia API’s.
March 2011
6 posts
Talking GoGoStat Connect with Mobile Industry...
Today, our Senior Product Manager Ron Stevenson was interviewed by Mobile Industry Review about GoGoStat Connect. Ron is currently in London where Microsoft and Telefonica announced a collaboration that creates new possibilities for app development powered by Telefonica’s BlueVia developer platform. To learn more about BlueVia and apps already created with BlueVia, check out this featured...
Have you seen the new PG?
Some of you may know about Parental Guidance, and to others it may be new. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s our application which lets parents monitor their children’s activity on Facebook.
We recently launched a new version of Parental Guidance with lots of great new features, including:
Parents are no longer required to have a Facebook account - this was a feature a lot of...
“Monitoring your kids’ online activity may not be as hard as you think.”
– New Service Helps Keep Your Kids Safe Online
Evan Haning, WTOP
“GoGoStat Parental Guidance also gets around the increasing problem of kids...”
– Keeping Kids Safe on Facebook
The Online Mom
“Thanks to the research of GoGoStat – a group that helps parents monitor the...”
– New Facebook Acronyms and Terminologies Used by Kids to Parent-Proof their Accounts
Gizmo-King
“We all use acronyms when posting online, but teenagers have some of their own to...”
– KPC Means Keeping Parents Clueless on Facebook
Jackie Cohen, All Facebook
February 2011
6 posts
“GoGoStat’s Parental Guidance and Parental Guidance Mobile come highly...”
– Special Report: Avoid the “Social Nightmare”
Cody Holyoke, WSFA 12 News
“There are a lot of tools to help parents get a better technical grasp on their...”
– WKYC News
WatchWKYC News talks about GoGoStat Parental Guidance as an easy and free way to assist parents in helping their teen be smart and safe on Facebook.
“Some apps give parents weapons to fight against bullying.”
– Protecting Children From Bullies On the Internet
DeShaunta Bullock, ABC
“Adding this tool to their Facebook page is a perfect opportunity to help educate...”
– GoGoStat Helps Parents Teach Their Children How to Manage Their Online Identity
Marijo Tinlin, SafetySurf
“Stevenson said children are more likely to accept a monitoring service if they...”
– Social Media Monitoring Services Stir Debate
eClassroom News
January 2011
1 post
“Have you seen those Geico commercials, “it’s so easy a caveman can do it!” ...”
– Parents: Are Your Kids On Social Networking Sites? Consider Signing Up For Free GoGoStat
Michelle Sigona, International Crime Wire
December 2010
11 posts
“Parents receive notifications when profile information is updated, obscene and...”
– Three Tools to Monitor Online Activity
Eydie Stumpf, The Press Enterprise
“A verdade é que o Facebook é a rede social que continua a conquistar muitos...”
– GoGoStat-O Controlo Parental no Facebook (GoGoStat: Parental Control on Facebook)
Marisa Pinto, Peopleware
“La aplicación es gratuita y creo que es una excelente manera de empezar a...”
– Mix:Tecnologia, web 2.0, gadgets, vida digital, musica, cultura geek.
“Además cuenta con unos reportes muy completos que te permiten ver gráficamente...”
– Cómo supervisar lo que hacen tus hijos en Facebook
(How To Supervise What Your Children Do)
Carlos Leopoldo, Techtastico
“Gogostat is an amazing web app”
– GoGoStat-Monitor/check your kids on Facebook
PC’s Place, Dwarka Rao
“The GoGoStat iPhone app was developed by Schakra, one of the sponsors of the...”
– 5 Apps That Could Help Stop Cyberbullying
Mind Shift
“GoGoStat Parental Guidance monitoring service is an application that runs within...”
– 3 Top Social Monitoring Systems: A Parent’s Best Friend
You-Cube
“A great free tool that enables parents to monitor their kids potentially unsafe...”
– PC Guru
“It can put a definitive stop to cyberbullying and related hazards.”
– GoGoStat.com-Monitor What Your Kids Do On Facebook
Killer Startups
“Si os preocupa lo que vuestros hijos hacen dentro de Facebook, si escriben algo...”
– Para saber lo que tus hijos hacen en Facebook
WWWhats New
“Parents can select which issues they’d like to be notified about and view a...”
– 4 Effective Tools for Monitoring Your Child’s Online Safety
Mashable
November 2010
15 posts
“Too many parents use the hope system: ‘I hope my kid isn’t doing...”
– Tech firms work on online programs to keep kids safe
Byron Acohido, USA Today
“This free app for Facebook is for parents who want to track their kids and make...”
– 14 Must Have Security Apps
John Brandon, Tech Radar
“Recently I ran across a write up about a company that has released a facebook...”
– Linda Lynch, KI Technology Group
“One of the sponsors of the International Bullying Prevention Association...”
– cheatiphone.com
“Going forward, Parents will be able to monitor their children’s activity on...”
– Calvin Azuri, TMCnet.com
“GoGoStat Parental Guidance can provide parents with their teens’ new...”
– Andrew Berg, Wireless Week
“The high iPhone adoption rate and value of using a mobile monitoring app...”
– FierceWireless.com
GoGoStat Parental Guidance App for the iPhone
Download the GoGoStat PG application for your iPhone today!
“Convenience for parents is our primary consideration in launching an iPhone...”
– Cabling Network Systems Magazine
“To ensure that teens are being safe and not socializing online with potentially...”
– Forbes.com
“GoGoStat Parental Guidance also alerts parents to new status messages containing...”
– CNBC
“To monitor for appropriateness, parents are also alerted to new photos that...”
– Daylife
“With GoGoStat Parental Guidance, parents define the types of activity to be...”
– Earth Times
“Parents are now able to monitor their teens’ activity on Facebook through the...”
– EuroInvestor
“GoGoStat Parental Guidance, created by the former Microsoft employees at...”
– Consumer Electronics Net
October 2010
4 posts
“With cyberbullying as prevalent as ever, the first free online app for Hispanic...”
– Bradentom Herald, Sun Herald, Benzinga
“As cyber bullying emerges as a nasty and easy supplement to traditional...”
– Doug Gross, CNN