A 2004 study of 350 companies in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Australia found that one-third of workers admitted passing along porn at some time – and half of all workers said they’d been exposed to sexually explicit material by co-workers. – MSNBC, Sept. 6, 2004, on study conducted by Queen’s University in Belfast
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If your child is being cyberbullied, contact your phone or internet service provider and report what is happening—they can help you block messages or calls from certain senders.
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70% of all online pornography access occurs during the 9-5 workday, according to Message Labs monthly report March 2004.
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We blog a lot about the dangers out there, and there are so many that take so many different forms it can at times seem overwhelming. Because of this we decided to isolate six problem areas and give parents one really useful strategy for dealing with them. These strategies are just a starting point, and [...]

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You can control how much people see about you on Facebook by setting up a “Limited Profile”. To do this, go to the “My Privacy Page” after logging on and click on the “Limited Profile Settings” link.
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Keep a record (including time and date) of cyberbullying incidents, as this may help you (or the police) to find out who is sending the messages.
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In order to drive up revenue, porn marketers use pop-up windows which when closed open up more pop-up windows. Known as ‘mouse napping,’ this technique traps users in an endless loop of porn. Thus, if you see your child sitting in front of a screen full or pornography, desperately trying to click away, realize that [...]

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Two-thirds of 474 human resources professionals said in a survey they’ve discovered pornography on employee computers. Nearly half of those, 43 percent, said they had found such material more than once.
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If your children have social networking accounts and have pictures of themselves up online, make sure they aren’t wearing any shirts with their school logos/name/sports team, because these can be used to determine their location and even street address. As always, talk with them about how what information is appropriate to share and why.
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The National Crime Prevention Council in a 2008 report recommends that parents consider installing parental control filtering software and/or tracking programs. (Over 70 percent of teens reported to the NCPC that being able to block cyberbullies was the most effective method of prevention.)
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