Internet Safety For Children

Archive for April, 2010

Parents,

Can you say some Safety tips,:)

Especially when the Child is new to the net, what are the safety tips?

Better to select good sites suits for our children and save it in the Favorites. So that you can ask them to go and just open only those sites.
Selected sites can be already saved to the kids, so that you can ask them to have a look at off line too.
Blocking particular sites is a facility available, but you cannot block all the unwanted sites.
On surfing, parents can give company, so that kids also will be happy, we too can assure the safe accessing of sites.

Hello, I am an 8th grader doing a persuasive speech on internet safety. I wanted to know some of the suicides, or even deaths that have been brought on by harsh internet use leading to people hurting themselves because of it. And there was a young girl on the news recently that took her own life because of it. If you know her name, could you tell me? And if you have any tips to help me reach into the audience to stop their child from doing this.. For having a relative that isn’t careful on the internet, I’m very serious about this topic. Thank you very much.

Sad situations, Info below:

http://www.meganmeierfoundation.org/story/

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3882520&page=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Megan_Meier

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/us/02bully.html

The social network – the most popular in the world – has been criticised for defying calls to add a specialist link to a panic button to every page.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop), wants the button, which enables users to report abuse, to be given prominent use. Last week, Mr Gamble, who leads CEOP revealed Facebook has never passed a concern to British police and that complaints about the site are spiralling. Last month schoolgirl Ashleigh Hall was murdered after a serial rapist made contact with her through Facebook. Mr Gamble said the Facebook negotiators were travelling back to the company’s California base to discuss their next move.

A few questions:

Do you think a panic button would stop internet groomers? Presumably the point is that the victim doesn’t know they are being groomed.

Can all reports of grooming be investigated thoroughly?

Is half the problem that youngsters are revealing too much personal information, including their school, address and photographs, thus making stalking easy?

Should parents not be responsible for their children’s online activities rather than the websites themselves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7584109/Facebook-must-turn-words-into-action-and-install-panic-button-says-child-safety-chief.html

For a start you’re not supposed to use Facebook if you’re under 13 years of age. Look at Yahoo and how many people hit the ‘report abuse’ button – it would be just the same, except that everyone would end up being investigated by the police rather than just having their accounts suspended.