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Teenagers and online cyber bullying

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

According to the September issue of the Journal of School Health, around 75% of teenageers who use the internet have been a victim of online bullying. Of those, about 50% of the incidents came from schoolmates and about 45% came from someone they only knew online. The bullying typically involves ...

Google street view and child security

Friday, September 26th, 2008

This website - Stopinternetpredators.org - holds the opinion that Google Map's street view feature is a danger to the security of children and families. They say that the street view feature can be misused by child predators to target children.  They have unleashed a campaign in which the sole purpose ...

Child predators targeting kids through online video games

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

One of the newest ways child predators are targeting kids is through online gaming. Online computer gaming is very popular amongst children and teens. Most popular game consoles such as XBOX and Playstation also offer a way to connect to the internet and play various games online with other gamers. ...

Myspace parental email blocking

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Myspace recently announced that they will now allow parents to submit their child's email address so when they attempt to create an account using the email address, it will prevent them from creating the account. I really don't understand the logic behind this. A new email can be created in ...

Parental Control - disabling computer programs

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Let's face it, children love to play around on computers. They are curious, energetic little creatures. However, there are some things that they just shouldn't be getting into such as: email, chat programs, personal finances, business related programs, etc... Fortunately there is software our there which allow you to disable ...

Web Watcher and alert words

Monday, July 7th, 2008

If you've read our review Web Watcher, you know that Web Watcher allows for real time remote monitoring - what you may not know is that Web Watcher also has the ability to track and organize monitored content based on specific words that you choose called 'alert words'. Think of ...