One of the things that I like about various traffic exchanges is that they encourage me to visit blogs that I would not normally otherwise visit. Today is a good example.

I stopped by and read Kellyology's post about email and ten year olds.

I am a big proponent of encouraging kids to use and learn about social media and I left a comment about it on Kellyology.

I thought it was worthy of highlighting, so here is the comment:

Being the social media maven that I am, I've encouraged my seven year old daughter to explore several different aspects of social media. These include:

Email - She doesn't do much more than your son does on this, but every once in a while, she gets motivated.

Twitter - This is nice that you can send quick messages. We've had similar success with this as we have with email. What is nice and yet of concern about this is that it is very public. The good part is that I see everything she sends. If there are potential issues it is easy to intervene. It has provided good opportunities to talk about online safety.

Flickr - She LOVES my digital camera, and for that matter, taking pictures with my cellphone. So, I set up a Flickr account for her. She doesn't use it very often, but every now and then, she grabs the camera and takes lots of pictures. I then sit down with her and we select which pictures we think are the best and upload the best of them.

BlogTalkRadio - This one we kind of fell into. I was at a conference on podcasting which BlogTalkRadio was one of the sponsors. I decided to give it a try and on the first radio show I did, she called in. It has now evolved into her radio show which we do just about every Sunday evening. It provides a great opportunity for some great father daughter time. It provides an opportunity for distant friends to listen in and is stored as podcasts, so we now have an audio archive of the two of us talking about our lives. It has been great to hear her as she gets more confident with her own voice.

We've played a little bit with video, but haven't gone very far with that.

I would encourage you to check some of these options out.