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What do you do about your child's myspace account. Here are a few tips:
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Show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom information services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. This...
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The first thing you need to do is review their Myspace site, or other social networking site with them.
When you review your kids internet site, here are a few things to look for:
- What's their site name? (names like Hottie123, blondncute, almostlegal17 etc. are big no-no's) (kids in our local school are using cartoon characters for names)
- What's their screen or login name? (for myspace it's their email, other sites might use something else)
- What personal information are they giving out? (school, names, city, phone#, email etc..)
- Review their site for language you disapprove of.
- Ask to see all the pictures they have posted (assuming they have)
- Look at their friends and the comments they have posted. (who's in their top 8?)
- Click on their friends links or pictures to visit their site, is it appropriate?
- You will have to spend some time on their site and really go over it to see if it's acceptable to you.
If you decide to let them keep their myspace account then we highly recommend that you review their site regularly. These kids tend to change their sites a lot and receive posts throughout the day.
It can be fun for the kids if it's done right and you supervise and lay down the law. Just remember, you really cannot let your guard down, predators are browsing these teen social networking sites
24\7 "fishing" for kids. See the Internet family browsing contract for the basics on Internet safety, read our Internet safety guide for parents and remember, Internet safety starts at home.
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Published Date:
19 March 2010
By Rob Preece Crime Correspondent
VULNERABLE teenagers in Yorkshire go missing "every day" after meeting strangers over the internet, one of Britain's most senior police chiefs has warned.
7 Steps to a safer Internet.
- Set Google to use strict filtering (this will stop most inappropriate images and text from showing up in your search results)
- Install Mcaffe's free SiteAdvisor (this is a great tool to warn you of potentially dangerous web sites)
- Install a good blocking\monitoring program. Spector Pro is one of the best and is reasonably priced.
- Install virus protection a few good ones are Mcaffe, Norton's, and Kaspersky.
- Use the parents\child Internet contract to setup rules and guidelines.
- Install Spybot Search & Destroy this is a free utility that will help with spyware removal and detection.
- Be aware, review the logs, checkup on your child's social networking site regularly.