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One of the most important factors when considering allowing your children to use online websites and services is ensuring their personal safety. A number of web services are now describing themselves as "child safe" and "family friendly" but one of the big problems, especially with social web sites, is that whilst the service provider may take steps to ensure your child may be able to use a website safely - there is still the risk of them talking to strangers. It's a safe bet that you may have told your children to not talk to strangers in person - but you should also have a similar attitude towards online web services.

Things you can do to ensure your children are safer online are to talk to your child about their experiences using the internet and put your home computer in an open area in your house so you can see what they are doing; even offer to take part in their experience to better understand how they are using a particular web service. Observe the typical behaviour and attitude of your child when they are using online services so you can watch out for any unusual changes which may sound alarm bells.

Don't forget mobile devices either. You may have a cool mobile device with games, music and videos loaded to keep your children occupied on a long car journey, or similar, but can you be sure what they are accessing? Many games these days are supported by ads which are easily clickable - some even dial telephone numbers so check all the software your are planning to allow your child to use and ensure you put mobile phones into airplane mode to ensure they can't inadvertently go online.


It's not easy to tell whether a person online is who they say they are, and it's not always easy to tell real people from SPIM (SPAM for Instant Messaging) so it's better to err on the side of caution. Also, ensure you know some basic acronyms used online such as AOS/POS which means "Adult Over Shoulder"/"Parent Over Shoulder", BRB2 which mean "Be Right Back 2" and implies a parent has entered the room, and also POF which means "Parent On Facebook". These terms may be used innocently but it can also help to identify areas where you might need to take further action.

Finally, read through the help and parent sections of websites and read all the information very carefully - your child can use the internet safely but you need to be proactive in ensuring they remain so.

 

 

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