Contact: Kevin Long, YouDiligence, 765-586-9233; Ryan Carter,  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, 719-299-1167

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Mar. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Colorado Springs area chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (www.socofca.org) and YouDiligenceTM (www.youdiligence.com) are teaming to promote Internet safety for children.

"We are pleased to join with YouDiligence in an effort to promote Internet safety for kids," said Ryan Carter, area representative of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, who added, "This was just such a natural fit. We reach thousands of junior/senior high school students and parents with our ministry, and now we are able to offer their parents a resource like YouDiligence to help protect their kids from Internet predators and cyber-bullies."

The partnership leverages Fellowship of Christian Athletes' ability to reach large numbers of families with the YouDiligence technology, giving parents the power to be proactive in protecting their children from online predators and cyber-bullies. YouDiligence 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, then pay an affordable monthly fee (starting at $9.99/month) after the first month.

"Most kids ages 10 and up spend 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," said Kevin Long, president of YouDiligence, who added, "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."

"Even computer-savvy parents can find it difficult to keep up with a child's activities on these sites. However, YouDiligence is easy to use, affordable and automatically scans a child's social networking profiles for inappropriate content and immediately notifies parents by email when it finds matches to those words," added Long.

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.