Tips on internet safety for parents

Tips on inteet safety for parents To this day? Children, the Inteet chat room has become the 21st century equivalent of the shopping mall or other popular meeting place. The most popular MySpace.com, claims more than 50 million users. Parents should be aware that these virtual meeting places where pedophiles "troll for new victims. So what? Very intelligent too.As part of a pedophile? S "grooming", the child receives messages that flatter and complement. Unknown to you, the pedophile is slowly becoming an important part of your child's life by improving their self-esteem. Like the pedophile goes lightly the issue of sex, the "right" answers and retu praise silently produce the wrong answers. Can possibly meet in person. Sometimes with tragic results. What can you do? Here? And what to look for if you suspect that your child may be at risk online: your child 1.Does cover the monitor screen or quickly close a browser window when you suddenly come into the room?   2.Do appear angry or defensive when you enter the room when they are online, but otherwise remain calm?   3.Are be earlier (and online), much later than usual?   4.Do move immediately to the computer when I have at home from school?   5.Do prefer to avoid online assets and families? A common trick is for pedophiles to use a name to hide his true identity. Just because someone screen name is "Heavensent" does not mean that? In fact a girl. "SurfBoy," can not be a teenager. As mentioned in the new film about this topic? Hamal_18? "You never know who you are really talking about." A good rule is to not disclose personal information (eg phone number, address, name, age, gender or school), anyone on the Inteet . Your pre-adolescents and teenagers should never forget that someone may be monitoring their conversations secret, or "lurk." True friends of the child and to know your personal information anyhow.If there is an Inteet-connected computer at home, no place in your bedroom of the child, which will be difficult to observe. In favor of a more public space ", where anyone can use." Setting limits on the use of the computer? To retu a big task, but not at 11:00 PM. But how can we know exactly where your children are spending their time online? Since most children use a web browser like Inteet Explorer or Netscape, go? Sa pure trick? S easy to remember. If any of these programs are open, hold the key? Ctrl? while pressing the letter? H? on the keyboard. This automatically displays a detailed history of each website your child has recently been to.Click twice in each line and see the places he visited his last child.Here 's what to look for: 1.Select "With the Most Popular "from the list below? View from the menu. There are many tickets for a website for a period of several weeks? For example, MySpace, or organized groups from Yahoo, Google or MSN?   2.Do noted the word "sex" or any other disturbing words in a list?   3.Does any list starting with the letters "H"? (a type of site where poography is often shown)   4.The text "IRC (Inteet Relay Chat), indicate that their child is at least a website specifically for chatting and nothing else. (IRC chats are not maintained by any other company like Yahoo, Google or MSN.) If your child? Sa heavy computer user, but the history list is empty, you should be conceed. Deliberately defaced or close the browser history can mean that something hide.Although many websites are "moderate" should not assume that these chat rooms are safe. Moderators can not be expected to review thousands of messages.Inteet Messenger, or "messenger" allows real-time communication between users. This technology provides an easy way to send short messages and the real voice chat, web cam, file exchange and sharing of photos. What? S is also widely used in mobile phones and other portable devices. More popular is the AOL Instant Messenger, but there are others such as Yahoo and MSN Messenger program.Sexual of predators, because the love of MI? They can operate in relative anonymity.   ? Easy to contact children through the use of directories and profiles.   ? Simple for a one-to-one conversation.   ? You can easily contact the child, because they know that? Go on-line.   ? Can I send messages about sexually images.Here 's some tips to make the use of AOL Instant Messenger insurance: AOL Instant Messenger screen 1.Open Preferences, click on My Goal, and then change the options, and then Edit Preferences .   Privacy 2.Select the list of options.   3.You will see an area at the bottom of the box that is titled: Let people who know my email address to find?   4.Select Nothing about me.   Discuss 5.Now selected list of other options.   6.In box when others want to talk to you, select Do not Allow.   7.Now selected IM / chat from the list on the left   8.Deselect the checkbox? Display posts from dialogue to accept messages from users not on my list of contacts. Despite these dangers, the Inteet can help protect your children too.Using the information from the Megan's Law, it is possible to identify sex offenders sentenced to live near you. A good starting point is the FBI? S site zip code of your home as the primary search criteria. Then, look at a map and determine which are the sex offenders to and from school for your child, the shopping center, a house of friends, etc. to drive or walk all over you? He lies and show their children. Before you know it, no? Ll begin to tell all your friends and the neighborhood a safer place for live.For more information: (click l '? For parents? Tab) John G. Thomas: Producer of films, computer expert, security consultant for children, parent famous graduate of the School of Cinema of USC, he? s produced and directed about 37 documentaries, short films and television programs, as well as numerous films. Among his film credits are "Tin Man" (Timothy Bottoms), "Banzai Runner" (Dean Stockwell), "The heat of Arizona," (Michael Parks, Denise Crosby) and "Medicine Man" (Tyronne Power Jr., Tobey Maguire and David McCallum). Thomas abandoned film for nearly six years. During this period, he was hired by IBM as a consultant for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. Were carefully examined hundreds of cases of pedophiles on the Inteet. After receiving a special mention of Los Angeles Board of Supervision for their important contribution, Thomas went with the desire to make a special film. "Hamal_18" is his latest feature film. It follows a detective searching for a pedophile online. ? I think the film has the potential to change people? S life? could save a child? s life too.