Internet Safety

For this activity, I talked to a 48 year old woman. She is an advocate for internet safety. There are too many things out there that destroy lives. She is pretty knowledgeable on the subject. She makes sure to keep the computer in a public room, such as the living room, so that she can always see what her kids are doing. She also makes all her kids tell her every password they set up so that she has access to their accounts, such as facebook or myspace. You can't keep your kids from making choices, but you can help direct them in a positive way and be aware and actively involved in what they do on the internet. She doesn't allow chat rooms, because they are dangerous. She also checks the history on the computer to see the sites that people in the household have visited. She knows a lot about email, obviously to not open anything from strangers or people you don't know. She knows a lot about internet safety, and we shared different ideas about how to control things that kids see/do on the internet. It was a positive conversation. I think I learned a lot from her.