SocialShield Now Offers Monitoring on Formspring to Better Protect Teens Online

SAN FRANCISCO and SAN BRUNO, Calif., Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SocialShield, the leading online monitoring service for social networking activities, today announced a partnership with Formspring to help parents be aware of their teens activities on the popular social network focused on friends getting to know one another better.

This partnership is a big win for parents of teens active on social networks. SocialShield's comprehensive solution provides parents with important information they can use to guide their teen on how to safely engage on social networks.  Formspring selected SocialShield because of its sophisticated technology and market leader position in the social network monitoring space.

SocialShield's patent-pending technology now enables parents to monitor their teens Formspring accounts for malicious or illicit content in questions, responses, profile updates, friend requests and other areas – alerting parents in real time when anything suspicious, dangerous or damaging is detected. SocialShield's other network partnerships enable the company to monitor accounts on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, and provide easy-to-understand reports for parents on all of their child's social networking activities.

"Formspring is committed to creating fun experiences for all of our users, which means safety is a top priority," said Ade Olonoh, founder and CEO of Formspring. "We maintain strict guidelines about being responsible and respectful within our community, and we encourage our users to report any bad behavior immediately with on-site tools like block, report or protecting an account. With SocialShield, we now have an added layer of security in place to further enhance the holistic approach we take when implementing user safety, security and privacy programs."

One of the fastest growing websites of 2010, Formspring has over 25 million registered members who have shared more than 3 billion responses since its launch in November 2009, with members currently posting more than 10 million responses every day. SocialShield's cloud-based monitoring software is able to track Formspring postings for suspicious or inappropriate activities and notify parents immediately of any unsafe or questionable behavior related to potentially harmful topics.

"Parents are very concerned about the potential dangers their teens face on social networks. We commend Formspring for taking proactive measures to safeguard their environment," said George Garrick, chief executive officer of SocialShield. "Because online safety is as important as offline safety, it's important that when things go wrong online parents have the tools they need to nip such activities in the bud as soon as they begin, and the best way to do that is to engage parents right away whenever a teen is exposed to anything dangerous or inappropriate."

Pricing and Availability

SocialShield for Formspring is now available via subscription and can be purchased from the SocialShield web site for $10 per month or $96 per year if paid annually. For useful parenting tips and advice on keeping children safe on social networks, visit https://www.socialshield.com/company/for-parents.

About Formspring

Based in San Francisco, CA, Formspring was founded in November of 2009 by Ade Olonoh. Formspring is a global service that encourages millions of people around the world to respond to one another in an authentic and meaningful way. It starts by directly asking people original questions and anticipating their entertaining or revealing responses. On Formspring, people can have fun, share insights and stories, and relate to the people they know or find interesting. As one of the fastest growing Internet sites in 2010, Formspring has over 25 million registered members who give more than 10M responses daily. For more information visit www.formspring.me.

About SocialShield

SocialShield is the leading cloud-based social network monitoring service. SocialShield gives parents affordable, easy-to-use, state-of-the-art tools to help them enhance Internet safety for their children in the online environment. The patent-pending SocialShield technology notifies parents about their children's activities on popular social networks so they can feel comfortable about who their children interact with online, what photos and conversations are being posted and where their children have created profiles. Yet, by operating primarily as an "exception reporting" technology, children can still use these networks with a feeling of privacy and independence.  Based in San Bruno, CA, SocialShield is backed by USVP and Venrock as well as several notable private investors. For more, visit www.socialshield.com.

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