The Internet- A Dangerous Innovation

By Author: Jamie Hanson
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Have you been thinking about parental controls? What about checking your kids' emails every so often? While these things may seem like an invasion of your child's privacy, especially if your kids are teenagers, they are absolutely necessary in today's society, where the internet is a vibrant source of knowledge, but also a risky and dangerous place, especially for children.

If given the decision between angering your child and having them surf porn websites and talk to pedophiles and other what-not's in chat rooms online, the choice should be simple for any parent. The internet is an indispensable resource for everyone, especially kids, but it is also very dangerous for kids to surf the web. As a parent, it is important to make sure that your kids use the internet safely and appropriately.

Nine out of ten children have viewed pornography on the internet. Sometimes it is not children's faults that they come across porn online, because it is absurdly easy to run into while surfing the web. About 70% of kids accidentally find pornography while surfing the internet. The only way to make sure that your child ...
... does not search for porn online, or stumble upon it accidentally, is by setting parental controls on your kids' browser.

Filtering what your child is allowed to see online will still give them privacy but will alleviate your mental stress over what they are finding online. There are simple restrictions that can be placed on your kids' viewing capacity that will not limit their browser privileges, except to eliminate the vulgar and corruptive material that exists online related to sex and excessive violence. With parental controls, you can make sure of the integrity behind what your kids see online.

Another prominent danger on the worldwide web is internet crime and the existence of predators online. Online predators that exist in chat rooms all over the internet have many different motives, whether it is identity theft, kidnapping or stalking. Regardless, these strangers on the internet are always on the lookout for unsuspecting kids who are too trusting of their online personas.

Children are often naïve and easily manipulated. It is therefore important that you as a parent take adequate steps in keeping your kids safe at all times. Kids email is a great tool that can help you monitor and supervise all your kids' incoming and outgoing emails. You have parental control as you can restrict time, block individuals from contacting your kids and removing any unwanted content.

Rather than letting your kids find out the hard way that not everyone online is to be trusted, educate your child on internet safety before he or she gets online. When logging on, your child should know how to operate the internet safely. Children should be taught never to give out any personal information to people online, whether it is their password, email address, home address or phone number. Kids should not even give out their full names in web chat rooms. It is also important to teach your children that just like they shouldn't get into a car with a stranger or take things from strangers, they should not agree to meet a stranger that they met online anywhere in person. There is no way to verify the identity of someone online, and meeting up with unknown net users can lead to disaster.

Jacob Andersen received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Utah State University. He is committed to using his knowledge and expertise to keeping kids safe online."The safety of our children is the mission of KidsEmail.org and MyKidsBrowser.com," Andersen said."Any profits made are reinvested into the development and advertising of new child safety products."