Why little online lives are safe at Tot Jot

We read this report about teen fickleness regarding online services (centering on MySpace), and noted that a lot of kids and parents cited security and privacy as major issues...

Over the summer, Birnbaum's friend Chrissy Quantrille discovered an impostor had taken her photos off her MySpace profile, set up a fake page and even used it to establish a romantic virtual relationship with a boy in California...

Her profile also landed her in hot water when a boy she didn't like kept asking to be her online friend. "I kept deleting the message," she said. "He got mad."

This kind of stuff make you wonder why you'd want to put your baby's life on a social networking site? Well, it made us wonder too! That's why...

- Profiles at Tot Jot are all private, just to be safe...
- We make you log into your parent account, and again when you access your Child's Tale, just to be safe...
- Viewing any parent blog or Child's Tale is an invitation-only affair, and we make you confirm all accepted invitations, just to be safe...
- We allow you to choose what posts your Tot Jot "friends" see, just to be safe...
- We allow you to choose what pictures you want your Tot Jot "friends" to see, just to be safe...

We've noticed other sites heading in this direction, and we suspect it will be slow goings for them. We started this way - Tot Jot was built with safety and security and privacy in mind, from day one, because nothing is more precious (and worth keeping safe) than your child.

I guess you get the hint...we are just trying (and very much succeeding), in keeping you and your child safe :-).

Thanks again,

The Tot Jot Team