Online Safety for Teens

Related reading: This post belongs to the Guidance for the AI Generation series—practical family guidance on privacy, boundaries, and teen digital safety.

Many parents believe a Facebook privacy setting works like a locked door. If a post is marked friends only, it feels contained—seen only by trusted people and held safely inside a small circle. That belief is comforting, and understandable. Privacy settings are designed to give families a sense of control in a very public digital world.

But social media does not behave like a closed room. It behaves more like a conversation carried across an open field. Once another person can see something online, the possibility exists for it to travel farther than intended. read more