You Didn’t Know These Internet Safety Tips?

September 17, 2009 | admin | Comments 1

You didn’t know these internet safety tips? As parents struggle to keep up with the forever changing latest technologies. It’s important for you to know that exploiting kids on the internet is a major problem.

Today 96% of teenagers are online and most are online every day. Studies show that the fastest segment of internet users are pre-schoolers.

There are over 750,000 online predators. Sexual predators are very successful in grooming and luring children into meeting them somewhere face to face.

Here’s 5 Tips that if you apply them, you will increase your child’s safety online:

Keep an eye on who your child contacts and the amount of time your child spends online.
Monitor your child’s activities by placing the computer in a family area in your house. Monitor other points of internet access like cell phones and gaming consoles. Monitoring software can be easily installed on a computer that allows you to view what websites your child visits and every key stroke your child types etc…
Review your child’s online profiles to ensure they’re not revealing personal details or information that might be used for the wrong reasons. Kids can unknowingly give out what could be dangerous information. Even if your child doesn’t use a last name online, for instance, and never lists your address, they still leave clues to who they are, what they look like and how to find them.
Stress to your children that they should never physically meet anyone that they have only become friends with online.
Encourage your children to talk to you about any inappropriate communication they might receive. With more than 77 million children nationwide using the internet we owe it to our kids to teach them online safety, and it’s just as important for parents to learn the risks of the internet in order to help your family have a safe and secure online experience.

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Daryl Whicker