Parents Can't Trust Outsiders With Internet Safety
At Newszap.com, journalist Lorna Jablonski does a good job of summing up the social networking issues that parents today face when their kids log online. She uses Myspace as her example, mostly because it's the 3rd most popular site in this country, but the issues at hand apply everywhere, and prove yet again that parents can't rely on anyone but themselves when it comes to Internet safety.
There are two main issues when dealing with social networking sites: first, as it says in the article, there's no way to know how many sex offenders and predators are registered on these sites under fictitious names.
And next, even when personal information is labeled "private" by social networking sites, "kids have found ways to get around the rules."
And here is the problem that poses the greatest risk - the kids themselves.
No matter what parents want to think about their children, the plain truth is that many, many of them are meeting strangers online, and then later, meeting them face to face.
Which is why Internet safety must always start in the home, with quality parental control software. WebWatcher by Awareness Tech is the highest rated parental control software system available, and it's received those high marks because it allows parents to do everything they need to do to keep their kids safe online. WebWatcher is easy to use, easy to install, completely invisible, and records every keystroke that happens on your computer.
WebWatcher is the ultimate Internet safety tool for parents who want to know exactly what's going on when their child begins talking to a new online "friend."
There are two main issues when dealing with social networking sites: first, as it says in the article, there's no way to know how many sex offenders and predators are registered on these sites under fictitious names.
And next, even when personal information is labeled "private" by social networking sites, "kids have found ways to get around the rules."
And here is the problem that poses the greatest risk - the kids themselves.
No matter what parents want to think about their children, the plain truth is that many, many of them are meeting strangers online, and then later, meeting them face to face.
Which is why Internet safety must always start in the home, with quality parental control software. WebWatcher by Awareness Tech is the highest rated parental control software system available, and it's received those high marks because it allows parents to do everything they need to do to keep their kids safe online. WebWatcher is easy to use, easy to install, completely invisible, and records every keystroke that happens on your computer.
WebWatcher is the ultimate Internet safety tool for parents who want to know exactly what's going on when their child begins talking to a new online "friend."
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