U.S. Synchronized Swimming Teams With YouDiligence(TM) to Promote Internet Safety

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Tue Apr 7, 2009 8:10am EDT

U.S. Synchronized Swimming Teams With YouDiligence(TM) to Promote Internet
Safety

YouDiligence is a service for parents that protects teens and tweens from
online predators and cyber-bullies by scanning their MySpace and Facebook
profiles for inappropriate content

INDIANAPOLIS, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Synchronized Swimming
(http://www.usasynchro.org) and YouDiligence(TM) (http://www.youdiligence.com)
are teaming to promote Internet safety for children.

"We are excited to team with YouDiligence to help protect children and promote
Internet safety," said Terry Harper, Executive Director of U.S. Synchronized
Swimming (USSS), who added, "Our membership is almost entirely young females,
and they all use social networks extensively. Now we are able to offer their
parents a resource like YouDiligence to help protect their kids from
inappropriate content. It is a win-win for the parents and more importantly
the kids." 

USSS is the national governing body for the sport of synchronized swimming,
and includes 5500 mostly 10-23 year-old female amateur athletes as well as the
U.S. National and Olympic teams. USSS will offer the parents of their members
subscriptions to YouDiligence, a service that scans children's MySpace and
Facebook pages for inappropriate content and then automatically alerts parents
by email. The partnership allows parents to get the first month of service for
free, and then pay an affordable monthly fee ($9.99 or $14.99/month) after the
first month. 

"There are heart-wrenching stories every day about children being tormented by
cyber-bullies and lured away from the safety of their homes by online
predators. This should serve as a wake-up call to parents. Recently more than
95,600 child predators had their MySpace and Facebook accounts terminated by
the companies. It only highlights that innocent children are being exposed,
stalked and bullied on social networking sites. Now parents can turn to
YouDiligence, a service that allows parents the peace of mind knowing they are
doing everything they can to protect their children, while still allowing them
to use the Internet safely," said Kevin Long, President of YouDiligence.    

Most kids ages 10 and up spend an average of 20-30 hours per week
communicating on social networking websites, like MySpace and Facebook, which
control about 90% of the social networking market for kids. These sites are
online hang-outs where tweens, teens and adults create virtual profiles, post
comments on each others' pages, trade messages and upload photos and videos of
themselves for anyone to see.

YouDiligence works directly over the Internet on Facebook and MySpace, so
there is no complicated software installation on individual computers. Parents
can feel comfortable that no matter where, or on what computer their child is
posting material from, when a match is found, the term, the context and
location are sent to the parent's email in real-time, allowing them to react
to potentially dangerous situations appropriately.

USA Synchronized Swimming is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

YouDiligence is a leader in the field of Internet safety and is headquartered
in Montpelier, Vermont, and has offices in Washington, DC, and in West
Lafayette, Indiana.

    CONTACTS:

    Taylor Payne
    taylor@usasynchro.org
    (317) 507-3410
    http://www.usasynchro.org

    Kevin Long
    klong@youdiligence.com
    (765) 586-9233
    http://www.youdiligence.com


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SOURCE  YouDiligence

Taylor Payne, +1-317-507-3410, taylor@usasynchro.org; or Kevin Long,
+1-765-586-9233, klong@youdiligence.com
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