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Hall Mead School,
Marlborough Gardens,
Upminster, Essex,
RM14 1SF.
Tel 01708 225684
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Tips for Parents/Children
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Tips for Parents |
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Monitor your Child(ren)'s Internet use at all times. Place your computer in a visible area such as your living room or kitchen
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Set up and agree ground rules, write it down and display it for all to use.
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do not allow your child(ren) or babysitters to use the Internet while you are not at home
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Invest in some Internet Safety Software, to limit access. You need to set it up for each member of the family and keep downloading updates. Check with your ISP or browser for any controls already on offer.
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Get involved with your child(ren)'s computer activities. Surf for sites together.
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Set up a Favourite Folder or Bookmark sites that you feel are appropriate for your children to visit. Tell them these sites you approve of
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Model for them how to be responsible computer users.
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Discuss how to be safe (see tips below)
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Don't overact if your child does stumble upon inappropriate site. Calmly explain why you feel this site is inappropriate. Help them find an alternative site to use.
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Encourage your child to share what they are doing.
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When using Chat rooms ensure they are moderated ones, this is a good way of ensuring a safe environment with varying levels of filtering.
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Use a child friendly search engine, such as Yahooligans or Ask Jeeves for kids.
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Don't assume filtering systems and child friendly search engines are 100% safe.
If you are still concerned reguarly check the History folder on your browser to see which websites have been visited recently. It is to very easy to accidently stumble across pornography, especially as these sites use innocent words, (ie Whitehouse or Barbie etc), So don't jump to conclusions is a porn site is lited in the History folder, just delete it.
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Never give out personal information on the Internet, This includes your name, address, telephone number, school or other personal information unless you have adult's permission to do so.
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When creating your email address use your nickname and not your real name.
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Use polite language while online. Never make threats. If someone threatens you, tell an adult immediately
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never agree to meet someone you have met online, If someone wants to meet you, tell an adult right away
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Avoid clicking on advertisements
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Only visit sites that an adult says are okay to visit
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If something appears on your computer screen that makes you uncomfortable turn off your monitor and get an adult.
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If in doubt speak to an adult.
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This rule also applies to texting
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Safety Tips
Parents: Be aware of the main risks to children: unsuitable and offensive material or adults who seek to exploit children by making contact over the internet.
Never reveal any Personal Details
Always stay in a public area of a chat room, where everyone can see the conversation, where you should be safer.
Use moderated chat rooms
Never arrange to go alone to meet anyone you have met over the internet, If you do meet an online friend, take an adult with you and meet in a public place.
Use email address that do not have YOUR own name
If you feel uncomfortable with the questions or images:
TELL A GROWN UP
Make sure you set ground rules for the children's internet use.
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11 tips for social networking safety |
Social networking Web sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Windows Live Spaces are services people can use to connect with others to share information like photos, videos, and personal messages.
As the popularity of these social sites grows, so do the risks of using them. Hackers, spammers, virus writers, identity thieves, and other criminals follow the traffic.
Read these tips to help protect yourself when you use social networks.
- Use caution when you click links that you receive in messages from your friends on your social Web site. Treat links in messages on these sites as you would links in e-mail messages. (For more information, see Approach links in e-mail with caution.)
- Know what you've posted about yourself. A common way that hackers break into financial or other accounts is by clicking the "Forgot your password?" link on the account login page. To break into your account, they search for the answers to your security questions, such as your birthday, home town, high school class, father's middle name, on your social networking site. If the site allows, make up your own password questions, and don't draw them from material anyone could find with a quick search.
- Don't trust that a message is really from who it says it's from. Hackers can break into accounts and send messages that look like they're from your friends, but aren't. If you suspect that a message is fraudulent, use an alternate method to contact your friend to find out. This includes invitations to join new social networks.
- To avoid giving away e-mail addresses of your friends, do not allow social networking services to scan your e-mail address book. When you join a new social network, you might receive an offer to enter your e-mail address and password to find out if your contacts are on the network. The site might use this information to send e-mail messages to everyone in your contact list or even everyone you've ever sent an e-mail message to with that e-mail address. Social networking sites should explain that they're going to do this, but some do not.
- Type the address of your social networking site directly into your browser or use your personal bookmarks. If you click a link to your site through e-mail or another Web site, you might be entering your account name and password into a fake site where your personal information could be stolen.
- Be selective about who you accept as a friend on a social network. Identity thieves might create fake profiles in order to get information from you.
- Choose your social network carefully. Evaluate the site that you plan to use and make sure you understand the privacy policy. Find out if the site monitors content that people post. You will be providing personal information to this Web site, so use the same criteria that you would to select a site where you enter your credit card.
- Assume that everything you put on a social networking site is permanent. Even if you can delete your account, anyone on the Internet can easily print photos or text or save images and videos to a computer.
- Be careful about installing extras on your site. Many social networking sites allow you to download third-party applications that let you do more with your personal page. Criminals sometimes use these applications to steal your personal information. To download and use third-party applications safely, take the same safety precautions that you take with any other program or file you download from the Web. For more information, see Before you download files, help protect your computer.
- Think twice before you use social networking sites at work. For more information, see Be careful with social networking sites, especially at work.
- Talk to your kids about social networking. If you're a parent of children who use social networking sites, see How to help your kids use social Web sites more safely.
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