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The service is free to end users. Mr Farmer said that the revenue model relies on the signing of four national sponsors for the first year; and also another 10-12 companies which will be able to provide sales links and group deals to users of the service.

While families are the obvious target for the service, it's also being marketed to day-care providers, preschool groups, football teams, community organisations and the like.

As far as monitoring content is concerned, Mrs Famer said; 'We expect people to take responsibility for their own cybersafety online, and create groups only they know.'

Mr Farmer said; 'The key demographic is parents and grandparents. This won't replace your Facebook profile.'

Instead he saw FamilyHQ as a useful additional network, especially for young people who want to share some - but not all - information with parents and other family members.

Using FamilyHQ for family networking and Facebook for other interactions would mean they could, when they get back to Facebook; 'communicate more freely knowing that their parents aren't watching.'


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Beverley Head is a Sydney-based freelance writer who specialises in exploring how and why technology changes everything - society, business, government, education, health. Beverley started writing about the business of technology in London in 1983 before moving to Australia in 1986. She was the technology editor of the Financial Review for almost a decade, and then became the newspaper's features editor before embarking on a freelance career, during which time she has written on a broad array of technology related topics for the Sydney Morning Herald, Age, Boss, BRW, Banking Day, Campus Review, Education Review, Insite and Government Technology Review. Beverley holds a degree in Metallurgy and the Science of Materials from Oxford University and a deep affection for things which are shaken not stirred.

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