I am sure you saw Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, in the news a while back. A few months ago, he testified before Congress about the company’s breach in privacy, releasing personal information of millions of their users.

Whenever issues like this come up in the news, we start asking big questions about technology, social media, and its uses. Is it safe? Is it good for us? Has it gotten out of control?

If you’re a parent, you are asking these questions in regards to your children. Should you allow them to be on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat? What dangers does this put them in? How do you monitor what they do online?

It is good that companies like Facebook are being called to a higher accountability, but what happens in this trial and with social media in the future is largely out of our control. We cannot control what Mark Zuckerberg or any other tech CEO does, however, you can control how you and your family will interact with social media and technology.

You can control how you and your family will interact with social media and technology.

The temptation for parents is to think that they have…