Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
We want to applaud Apple for making the iPhone and iPod touch more family-friendly by introducing their parental controls in the 3.0 update. The new settings allow parents to restrict movie, TV show, music, podcast and application access by user age.
The only thing lacking in the parental controls is a way to control what kids [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Don’t allow your children to conduct searches on their own if you are concerned about them being exposed to pornography. Occasionally a small typo can lead to pornographic sites, images, and videos.
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Posted on June 29th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
IWSN, ITS, GNOC, RUH, and LHSO are all invitations to online sex, so if you see these codes either coming from or going to your kids, it is likely time to sit down and have a talk about sex and strangers.
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Posted on June 28th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
P2P networks remain the most common vehicle for the distribution of child pornography.
During the month of June, in recognition of Internet Safety Month, the InternetSafety.com blog will be posting a tip a day to highlight important issues in Internet Safety, and to provide practical tips on dealing with these issues.
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Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Never add a stranger to your friends. In addition, don’t use social networking to befriend people you don’t know in real life first. The reward is not worth the risk.
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Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Give your child strategies for getting themselves out of situations when they encounter things that make them uncomfortable. Be creative with them, and don’t expect them to take a stand if other kids their age are looking at pornography or engaging in sexual activities. Tell them its ok for them to just leave.
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
I can’t tell you the number of times I have seen stories about people misusing libraries as their own personal adult theater.
It’s especially sickening since most of the people caught aren’t just looking at porn, but more often than not child pornography, which of course is illegal. Given that libraries are public places where children [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Have “the talk” 2-3 years before when you think you should. Create the conversation so that you can control the conversation, before someone else does.
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Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
One in five teens have sent nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves via text on a mobile device.
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Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Chatting remains incredibly popular among children and teens, and unfortunately it is therefore popular with online predators as well. Chat rooms and Instant Messaging programs remain the most popular medium with predators, and monitoring them without using a software designed for it is already incredibly hard. Then you get into chatspeak, a never-ending codex of [...]
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