hile social networking precautionary measures that need
sites can be an exciting to be re-enforced no matter how
place to meet up with old your kids are.
virtual friends and exchange
ideas, they also increase your Remind them to never share
exposure to less-than-friendly personal information about
people with other intentions on themselves or their family with
their minds. Kids especially are any stranger online. Information
particularly vulnerable to the including their real name,
many sexual predators who stalk address, name of their school or
social networking sites looking even sports clubs that they play
for likely prey. Parents need to for can be used to find anyone
understand that these risks are offline.
real and take the necessary
precautions. Discourage your kids from using
their real names or any other
Talking to your kids before-hand screen names that could be
about the dangers of social directly linked to them. For
networking is the best way to people who want to, it can be
them safe. Lay the ground rules very easy to combine the clues
for internet online usage, but and figure out who the person is
make sure you tell kids why it and where they can be found.
needs to be done. How much you
tell them and the boundaries you Install internet filtering
decide to set depends on your software on your computer to
kids’ ages and their computer restrict access to unacceptable
know-how, and will have to be site. Regularly monitor the chat
reviewed regularly as they grow. rooms that your child frequents,
even if it is a kid-friendly
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