Parents

In an attempt to make parents’ heads explode, Facebook introduced another possibly perplexing wrinkle to their ever-expanding social web. Places is a new app that will allow users to share their real-time location data, commonly referred to as geolocation, with their friends and possibly friends of friends. Places is a natural extension... More...

Over a year ago I wrote an article called “The Sexting Craze” (click here to read the article). If you don’t know “Sexting” is sending nude or semi-nude pictures or video via text messaging or the Internet. Back when I wrote the article studies said 20% of teens admitted to sexting. I read an article today sighting... More...

As the role of technology as teaching aids continues to evolve, do you know how your school uses it in the classroom? What are the policies for Internet use? What about mobile devices? Is your school using a filter, and if so what are the monitoring policies?With back-to-school time right around the corner, now is the time that parents should ask... More...

"There are over 100,000 websites dedicated to child porn. It's a multi-billion dollar industry. Over the past 13 years the number of child pornography offenders has increased by 1,500%." I wrote this in April of 2009. Things have not gotten a whole lot better on the statistic side of things but finally the Department of Justice announced its first... More...

Education of both parents and children is key to any successful online safety strategy, and the founders of KidSafe are taking just that approach. [read more]. The article points out that parents should create an Internet safety contract with their kids, but the article does not go into detail about what the contract should contain. To those... More...

If you didn't know June was Internet Safety Month and Yahoo! released the results of a survey they recently commissioned about Parents and Online Safety. The results were pretty interesting and, according to the survey, parents are doing a good job in some areas and in others they need more help and education. Let's take a look and some of the... More...

So your daughter is online looking for information on the Mayflower for her 5th grade class project. She types in a web address, accidentally misspells it, hits enter and WHAM!  She’s looking at a totally naked guy and girl doing something you hoped you wouldn’t have to explain to her for a couple more years.  Well, the... More...

After years of debate, ICANN, the not-for-profit regulatory agency that issues domain suffixes, decided to go ahead with domains ending in .xxx for adult sites.ICANN says the measure is intended to “provide a place online for adult entertainment providers and their service providers who want to be part of our voluntary self regulatory... More...

Perez Hilton puts another nude picture of Miley Cyrus on the Internet. Lindsay Lohan defends her porn star role in an upcoming film. Hustler is making a 3D Avatar porn film. These are just a few of today’s headlines. What the heck is going on? Miley and Lindsay are (where) kids stars. I think Perez is a jerk for posting nude photo’s... More...

Once more here is another blog from our friends at Safe Eye's. If you are looking for a great filter for your family this is a great program and very user friendly. What should you do when you catch a spouse or child looking at porn? Dr. Robi provides some psychological background and a few tips:There are different types of motivation for... More...