Internet Safety
Being safe on the web should be the number one priority for every internet user. Below are helpful tips which will help make your online interactions a bit safer. Note that the ultimate safety lies in using common sense in your online activities.
Email, IM & Chat Rooms Safety Tips
Be aware of e-mail scams and emails that might contain viruses or inappropriate content. Simply do not open emails from sources you do not know. Better yet delete such emails. Instant messaging is the exchange of real-time messages from a contact list. In any such interactions limit the amount of personal information you share and with children, make sure their contact list are people you know and discourage them from adding strangers
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Many Web browsers come with settings where you can filter out inappropriate things like extreme violence, adult sites, and other media that you know is not appropriate.
Internet Safety for Children
Online Privacy has its limitations. It is best to assume that everything you write on the Web is not completely private. Most important thing is to talk to your parents about which sites are good and safe for you to use. When interacting in a chat room or through e-mail, never give out your personal information or the information of someone else you know. Do not share personal photos or family photos with strangers online. Do not open e-mails that are from people or sources you don’t know. Such e-mails can be disguised as credible emails that can be used to gather personal information from you. Just DELETE such e-mails. Never plan to meet people you meet online. If such people try to meet you, stop any such interactions with them and notify or tell your parents. Never share your Account Username and password on any site you visit with friends or strangers. You can share such information with your parents, but no one
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You have to be aware that not all games are appropriate for children or even adults. Any game that teaches or encourages the breaking of laws, violence or promotes immorality are games, both adults and children have to carefully way the consequences such games have when there is repeated exposure. Remember that what we do most with our time and energy becomes a part of us. Just because it’s a video game and it does not directly harm anyone does not mean it cannot harm you subconsciously. A general guide is to play games that educate, entertain and do not promote behaviors detrimental to societal
Treat any emails with respect & confidentiality i.e. do not share with anyone that should. Never walk away from your computer so that someone else can read your emails or even worse be in a position where someone could send an email on your behalf.
As Hanah (2010) claims, many parents grew in society without modern technology as mobile phones or the Internet. Consequently, it can be hard for them to imagine virtual life and they can feel powerless in possible protection of their children in the Internet world. As a result, we can find that the first step for parents should be participating in child’s cyber life. This step requires patience, but it is reasonable. In case, when parents already know how to work with the Internet, they have many possibilities (Hanah, 2010). Firstly, they can find children’s internet accounts and start to monitor their activities; the best way how to do it is to make a virtual friendship with the child. Of course, the good idea would be to inspect children’s other friends. Hanah (2010) claims that parents should use some of traditional methods. They have to choose limits for using of computer in their family. Especially, it will work when they will insist on their conditions, even if their child is not very happy about them.
...s 7 and 8(10-12 years old) showed an adult level of understanding regarding negative consequences of Internet use compared to other age groups.” This indicates that this age group has the ability to understand the negative consequences caused by privacy loss and manage to avoid them. Young adolescents are making a transition from being protected by COPPA to teens without protection; it would a good time to encourage them to adopt safe Internet usage practices.
First of all, I quite agree with Coben’s suggestion of spyware. Most of the kids as of today, will meet someone online and decides to meet them somewhere, which is dangerous. In my own experience, I’ve been calling and chatting strangers
The internet is a wonderful learning tool. Of course, like any good thing, the Internet comes with its ups and downs. There are several things that aren’t suitable for any child on the internet, such as pornography, violent material, adult chat rooms, and racist or hateful sites, there are even websites about cheating in schools.
...he ever expanding internet is safe or private. However, there are ways for one to protect themselves, and create a blanket of privacy while using the internet in this new technological era.
...n. While many people don’t realize it, there is always risk when you use the internet. You must be able to know how to defend yourself against these attacks or you risk losing it all.
With a simple click of a mouse, children of all ages can engage in a variety of chat rooms. As reported in MSNBC live, “Instant messaging on the computer has become the new phone for kids today. Children spend hours chatting online with their friends, and sometimes with strangers” (Hansen, 2004). Although these chat rooms are advertised as harmless communication networks designed for our youth to make new friends, there is actually no way of knowing whether a child is chatting with a 13 year old girl of a 43 year old man. According to one recent study, “one in five children will be approached by a sexual predator within in the next year; a predator who may try to set up a face-to-face meeting” (Hansen, 2004). It is this kind of instant messaging that is becoming one the internet’s greatest dangers.
In today’s society technology is used for everything. With the invention of computers and the internet this open doors to the cyber world. Today you can do almost anything without having to leave your home. The internet gives us the opportunity of shopping online, ordering food online, working from home and video chatting with friends and family across the world. Everyone has a computer and internet access in their homes. While the internet is really convenient it also opens doors for cybercrimes, loss of privacy and the need for computer security.
Tons of people who know your name or username can access your personal information if you don’t lock your privacy settings tight. For instance, page 2 of the eBook states that tons of people on the website can access our personal information. In addition, page 6 of the eBook shows similar situation where Amy did not lock her privacy settings and someone hacked her accounts and posted bad stuff on her account page regarding a person who she thought was cute. This incident is evidence of being hacked or someone accessing your personal information if you do not set your privacy settings on.
According to SHRM.org, there are huge possibilities for someone to steal your information and you become a victim of an online identity theft.
The 90's internet boom gave rise to new ways of writing in through access to cyberspace. What used to be printed or handwritten on physical surfaces such as paper, cardboard, or bulletin boards has changed to 0's and 1's, bits and bytes of digitized information that can be displayed thru the projections of computer screens. Moreover, the internet has made the process of publishing one's works, writing letters, or chatting with one another much easier and convenient for everyone around the globe. The internet became a universal tool, giving much freedom and flexibility to the users; it gave them opportunity to deliver their thoughts with little or no restrictions. Since it's impossible to regulate all cyber-activities, internet users are often unrestricted by the normal laws or authorities that would set boundaries around the various online transactions. More importantly, the fact that a net user can take on different identities in cyberspace brings about several ethical and social issues. These anonymous and unrestrictive characteristics of cyberspace often permite abusive users to easily involve themselves in serious cybercrimes such as cyberstalking, cyber-rape, and cyber-harassment through chatting services, emails, cyber communities, and other online communication.
Parents should also talk to their kids about the benefits and risks of Internet and help them to keep safe online. Tell them not to give out their personal information and discuss the danger this can bring them. We have to teach them the right ethics on using this technology as well, because in some cases there are those who use the Internet to harm, to threaten, to deceive and commit crimes. Cyberbullying had caused many lives already therefore, we need to know if our kids are already victims or perpetrators of this crime.
Created for communication, the internet, both the world wide web and the deep web, is the greatest way to transmit information between multiple platforms. The exponential growth of the internet only increased its use in the world, with a myriad of digital services, like the media, articles, forums, and entertainment and social platforms, especially twitter, youtube, facebook, and multiplayer gaming, using it as a vehicle for communication and spreading information, and possibly also influence. The uses of the Internet is good to know, sure, but what does it have to do with the concept of privacy? Today, the involvement of the internet with privacy gets quite convoluted, and countless issues, successes, controversies, and terrors have occurred
When it comes to having an account online it can get quite dangerous. Not only is it dangerous but having the gadget lying around the house or even having their own at a young age can make it easier for them to have easy access to those social media accounts. Parents need to take precaution with their children and the internet. Meeting someone online is so much more different from meeting them in person. It is hard to tell if people and kids are their real age that they put on their information because you can actually lie about how old you really are. There has been many cases where involving younger girls talking to older men, a 15-year-old can be talking to a