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My twin daughters are 8 and they’re getting more and more internet and computer savvy. There are always trends going around like "Neopets" and "Club Penguin" that they and their friends get into. I let them go on the computer for half an hour a day each, but of course I can’t watch them the whole time as I have three other younger kids.
I bought software which blocks most bad sites, and I’ve given them the "internet safety chat", but I was wondering if there’s anything more that you mothers do to keep your kids safe.

can u please give me ur opinion on it and fix the mistakes in there tanks

This marvelous book will touch on some very serious points; any average 12 or 13 will possibly face at some time in their life. In this essay I mostly focus on internet safety, and how you can use it for beneficial reasons. Usually for kids it is very hard to understand what kind of predators are behind the computer screen; but the story of dear Jo will explain all the hazards that a child/teen can face while on the internet. All readers, in all ages will find this book interesting and to make it a little more exciting I will write a brief summary of Dear Jo in the next two paragraphs. Every child must understand the risks of using a specific website or using the internet at all. I personally prefer to use the internet to communicate with my friends and family that I don’t get the opportunity to see often, or to research for school references.

I know this is the job for the police but we know they can’t do it all and there’s too many child predators or pedophiles on the Internet and too many children being abducted. We also know there are some parents who fail to talk to their children about Internet safety and fail to put in softwares that help record Internet activities and so forth…. we also know that children will lie to their parents about what they’re doing online.

Child predators really need to be dealt with because of those reasons. I’ve read that one can get into trouble if you go in a chat room and pretend to be a young child when you’re not. I don’t see why. There must be something else that can be done.

If I do enter a chat room and pretend to be a young child and I want to be anonymous when reporting this pedophile, is that possible? Is it possible to be anonymous and not involved at all once the report is in?

Hello, I am an 8th grader doing a persuasive speech on internet safety. I wanted to know some of the suicides, or even deaths that have been brought on by harsh internet use leading to people hurting themselves because of it. And there was a young girl on the news recently that took her own life because of it. If you know her name, could you tell me? And if you have any tips to help me reach into the audience to stop their child from doing this.. For having a relative that isn’t careful on the internet, I’m very serious about this topic. Thank you very much.

I’m studying Java. and im not in college yet. I wanna create a program for teens, I see these kids on myspace and it got me thinking that i should make a program, just like myspace, it’s gunna be a chatroom, instant messaging, profiles and blogs, and those profiles will determine if that person has myspace. You can look at myspace profiles without connecting to the internet.
This Software should also come with a P2P file sharing software like Kazaa and Limewire. Where they can download music and feature length movies free. Dial-up users will download all this stuff fast with no problems at all.

But, I think teens are expected to know the guidelines of internet safety, and I will not take responsibility if that child gets abducted and killed. and the age limit should be 14, it’s the law.

What do you guys think? What are your suggestions? Is this program even possible to make with Java?

Also please star this question! I need alot of ideas!

What would be a nice name for this

I got this story on internet safety in an email. I would like to know how many people have seen this, as I feel it is very interesting and makes you think twice about adding strangers on Myspace, Facebook, Tagged, etc.
PLEASE star so that others can see this and inform other people, even ones without children!!!! It could SAVE LIVES! Or, copy and paste onto an email and forward to all of your contacts!

MYSPACE: A Must Read for All

EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE CHILDREN READ IT TOO!

After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213 She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:

ByAngel213:
Hi. I’m glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!

GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don’t you live in a safe neighborhood?

ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz’ I didn’t see anybody when I looked out.

GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven’t done that have you?

ByAngel213:
Of course not. I’m not stupid you know.

GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?

ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!

GoTo123:
That’s great! Who did you play?

ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL

GoTo123:
What is your team called?

ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.

GoTo123:
Did you pitch?

ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home. I don’t want them mad at me. Bye!

GoTo123:
Catch you later. Bye

Meanwhile…….GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.

Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina

Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School . She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.

Shannon didn’t tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn’t want them to make a scene and stop her fr om walking home from the softball games. Parents were always over re-acting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn’t be so overprotective.

By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.

Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.

He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn’t look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.

After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.

Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her It was only a few blocks to Shannon’s home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.

Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon ‘s house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.

Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.

‘Shannon, come here,’ her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn’t imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.

‘Sit down,’ her father began, ‘this man has just told us a most interesting story about you.’

Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!

‘Do you know who I am, Shannon ?’ the man asked.
‘ No,’ Shannon answered.

‘I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123.’

Shannon was stunned. ‘That’s impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He’s 14. And he lives in Michigan !’

The man smiled. ‘I know I told you all that, but it wasn’t true. You see, Shannon , there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze.’

Shannon was stunned. ‘You mean you don’t live in Michigan ?’

He laughed. ‘No, I live in Raleigh . It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn’t it?’

She nodded.

‘I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn’t as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you’ve learned a lesson from this and won’t do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?’

‘It’s a promise!’

That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic
situation.

*****NOW****

EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN
I know it is kind of long, but please read the whole thing

I know back then it was more about family and spending time with them and stuff, since my parents have told me about it as well and it tends to be true.
Todays parents and kids it seems different: Parents (not all), can careless about what their kids do out at 1 in the morning, don’t set as strict discipline (like just time outs that really doesn’t help anything), and don’t teach the kids right from wrong as much and respect for others outside which definitely affects how they act.
My parents taught me right from wrong, I sometimes think before I act, but I will admit I’m no angel and I admit it. I talk back at my parents and stuff when we are mad and they don’t seem as strict with me sometimes although when I’m on the computer if I get worked up they take it away from me. I’m quiet outside most of the time since I’m not very social with people and really don’t know how to…I’m set a curfew if I ever do go outside and it’s pretty early to most people, so I’ll say they are strict on that but usually I’m inside the house.:( I can see why though since where I am there can be wacky people but it stinks. My parents do trust me on what I do on the internet and what sites I can be on or not since they don’t know much about the internet stuff as much as I do and I kinda made myself learn from those things about internet safety and yada yada yada.. But again I admit I’m definitely no angel. I have both a mother and a father I live with as well. My life isn’t all that great from past events that I’m still scared of deeply and it seems to affect me in some areas.

But to the point I’m trying to make and ask, why are parents not as much caring or strict about their children these days? Why is it all about money now and having a rich life and some cases have money being made off for having certain children?.. and never about as much for family? What’s that going to bring for the children now if they ever become parents? It seems mostly know more separation, a parent leaving from a family and there’s only a single parent around the house… Why?.. I can feel now it’s going to get worse in the future.:/ But if a person is raised by a family who isn’t all that great, how are they going to grow up and raise a family so they wouldn’t go through what the parent did? Could the people around the child’s enviroment help make the person’s actions be like this too?

I’ve been chatting with this guy on MySpace for several months. He’s never revealed his real name or posted any pictures of himself, which he said was because of Internet safety concerns, which I can understand, so I was cool with that. He’s sort of odd and geeky, but he’s nice and I like him. I just kind of assumed that he was some bored kid who was online without his parents’ permission looking for someone nice to talk to.

Well, just lately I found out that he’s somebody I actually knew in real life. I didn’t know him very well – we were passing acquaintances, and I didn’t even know his full name. I haven’t seen him in person for about a year. I’m pretty sure that he had a crush on me, but he always acted really shy and awkward so I didn’t ask him about it. Anyways, he knew who I was and he found me online.

I’m not quite sure what to make of this. His behavior seems kind of stalkerish, but then again he’s never acted like a stalker at all – he doesn’t send me messages all the time or ask me for personal information. As far as I know, everything he’s told me about himself is true – he just never told me his name. He’s never said anything inappropriate to me, and it seems like he was only looking for a friend the whole time. But I don’t understand why he felt the need to keep his identity a secret from me.

Any insights? :/

A prominent "REPUBLICAN" has prepared legislation that would "REQUIRE" that your service provider keep logs of all Americans online activities.
The companys,like Yahoo,Windows and Google that didn’t comply would be fined for one year.
Wisconsin rep. F. James Sensenbrener,thought this brilliant one up,so police would have it easier conducting investigations etc.
This means they will get every little bit of information about you,your parents,who you contact,what sites you visit,your "age" where you live,what you say,"there goes answers".
His legislation is very vague on the "Explotation of todays youth Act"
or "Internet Safety Act" Here are some comments from people.
quote: The internet Safety Act"follows along line of bad laws in the name of children"
CONGRESS surrenders-Freedom eliminated=Terrorist "WIN"
Tell me again,why young kids are dying in Iraq?
I personaly wonder what the F, stands for,and I hope Wisconsin people get rid of this threat to all of us.

ok im wiritng a persuasive essay about internet safety for school. in it, i have to include a quote from an authority. this is what i found:
– One in -five children have been solicited sexually while on the Internet. (Telegraph.co.uk January 2002).
– Four (4) percent of all youth Internet users in 2005 said online solicitors asked them for nude or sexually explicit photographs of themselves
Online Victimization of Youth: Five Years Later. 2006. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Crimes Against Children Research Center, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. December 4, 2006

from this site http://preilly.wordpress.com/2006/12/27/the-facts-about-internet-sexual-abuse-and-schools/
(its the third block down of italics if u want to see it)

so how do i quote that in my essay?