Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Keep every family member’s social networking passwords written down in a common drawer. Knowing your children’s passwords to social networking sites and IM accounts could yield crucial information if your child goes missing, and allows the adults access to kids’ accounts if inappropriate information needs to be taken down.
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Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Establish that all rules for interacting with people in real life are true for interacting online or through cell phones.
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Posted on June 21st, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Establish your own family definition of what constitutes pornography, and whether or not your family has a distinction between pornographic content and inappropriate content.
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Posted on June 20th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Talk to your kids about your family values concerning sex and exhibitionism, but also about the permanence of digital media, and the permanent consequences that come with it.
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Bill O’Reilly recently aired a segment about the vast amount of “softcore” pornography on YouTube. The segment features research from the report BlueTube written by cultureandmedia.com.
Though Bill is catching some heat, predictably, for airing small portions of some of the videos to prove his point, we also think it’s important that parents know what is [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Pornographers use YouTube to drive traffic to their sites and products by uploading non-pornographic portions of actual pornography or softcore pornography. The videos often contain links to pornographic sites with the full versions of the video.
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
Our second round of questions primarily concern our solutions Safe Eyes and Safe Eyes Mobile. A few of these questions were asked by multiple readers, so we thought it would be helpful to answer them in a public forum. We hope these answers prove useful in evaluating or using our products.
Perplexed on Proxies
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
On your home computers, only make accounts for the adults and password-protect them. That way, kids have to get permission from the parents every time they use a computer.
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Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than 1-2 hours of total screen time (tv, games, computer) per day for kids.
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Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Stanley Holditch
As part of the AskInternetSafety.com campaign, we will be periodically posting the questions we receive from our readers and answering them publicly. The following letter is a story we hear far too often, and one of the primary reasons our company was founded. We thought we would answer it on its own, because of the [...]
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