My Secret Circle™ is the first-ever secure social networking world designed for girls 8-12 and their internet-cautious parents.
Invisible to the online world, My Secret Circle™ let’s younger girls create perfectly private communities with friends, while avoiding the advertising and strangers present on other social networking sites.

Within the My Secret Circle™ world, your child can create their social circles. The My Secret Circle Access Key give your child access to journal, instant message, play games and photo share. Your child can also have access to unlimited online voice-chat with the My Secret Circle Voice-Chat Headset™.

My daughter has so badly wanted to get online, but I am so wary about that and really had to put my foot down and just say no, as much as I hated to do that because she sees that I am involved in social media and really wants to be like me. I struggled with allowing her to be just part of one social networking site, but just didn’t feel like it was time for her to online just yet. But worry no more, now there’s a fun, safe alternative that keeps both kids and their parents happy.

Global game and toymaker, Senario, has created the first-ever secure social networking world specifically for girls ages 8-12. My Secret Circle is a new plug-‘n-play product that allows girlfriends – not strangers – to hang out online, chat, blog, write journal entries, share pictures, play games and more.

It uses online access keys (USB keys) featuring proprietary technology with embedded browsers and unique ID codes. Only friends can connect by exchanging private codes. Even better, girls never need to upload personal information online, further enhancing the security of the network.

Can be found on Amazon.com and Target for $19.99.

My Thoughts

My daughter has let the whole “have to be online” thing die down since receiving this product, and through our review process we have determined that it is safe for her to be on it. And she has so much fun! Her best friend has one and together they have fun on it sharing pictures and making posts. And the best news? There are no monthly fees to pay. I like that! She really has developed a little of my sense on the whole online thing so she realizes that I just want to keep her safe and My Secret Circle does that for me. I recommend this product to everyone, tween girls would love to get this under the tree this year!

And I am happy to say that I can help give at least one girl a My Secret Circle single set (as shown above) this Christmas with the help of Senario’s donation for my Christmas Gift Guide. Please see rules below to enter today.

Giveaway

• MAIN RULE – Tell me in comments who you would give this to if you are the winner. (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
• 1 Extra Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed or by email (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment.
• 1 Extra Entry – Add my Christmas button to your site and let me know you did in a separate comment (code is at the top of blog)
• 1 Extra Entry – Follow me on Twitter (button in subscribe section on the right sidebar) and let me know your Twitter name in a separate comment.
• 1 Extra Entry – Tweet this giveaway. Copy and paste – Merry Christmas @Jentifa is giving away a My Secret Circle USB key! Check it out here http://bit.ly/8r1hTL. Then come back and leave the direct link to your tweet (go to your twitter account, click on the words when your tweet was sent (ie. 5 seconds ago) and copy and paste that link in comments.
• 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog.

This giveaway will run through midnight on December 14, with winner being announced the morning of December 15. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

We all worry what are children are doing and what kind of access they have to the outside world. This is especially true of the online world, a world where extra precautions need to be taken. For parents, some of the things your children talk about may seem alien to you when it comes to online but your main purpose remains the same, to protect them. For me with a 16 year old and an almost 10 year old that want to protect is even stronger now that they are both online. That’s why I am so pleased to have found NS Teens through Mom Central.

NetSmartz, a leading online resource of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, used their expertise to develop NSTeens to educate, engage, and empower kids as Internet users,  The website, www.nsteens.org includes bios, comics, and videos of seven teen characters. Their comic How Much Is Too Much illustrates the consequences of improper Internet use and shows the power of impact teens can have when they use their network to empower people. Videos cover important topics such as social networking, cyberbullying, and offline consequences. Each cartoon video also portrays interviews with teens talking about their Internet use.

I would like to say that I recommend you sit with your child and watch the videos and be there to answer any questions your child/children have. Even my 16 year old got some things out of watching them with me. I am so glad there are people out there that care to take the time to share the rights and wrongs with our children.

Thank you NS Teens for giving me a place to become more educated in the online goings on with the youth today and thank you Mom Central for this great opportunity.