Internet Child Safety

The Internet’s original goal was to share files and provide research for users, enabling them to share global information through a channel of wires, circuits, networks, and other devices. As moms we never thought we would have to worry about internet child safety. The internet proved useful in various ways by providing doctors, teachers, as well as other helpful tools that serviced people faster than going out in the field to find the data elsewhere. In fact, lives have been saved because of the wonderful creation of the World Wide Web. (WWW) Today most of all work is conducted is on the Internet, including homework.

Users’ gain access to information on nearly any subject imaginable, by using what is known as a Search Engine. Similar to a dictionary, the user looks up a word and accesses a definition of what he or she is searching for; likewise, when the user types in a keyword, a website appears with words that are related to the phrase the user is seeking.  

The Internet offers us e-mail access, Instant Messaging, Chat Room, Webcam capabilities and more. The Internet however is a dangerous environment, since around the globe anyone can employ the Internet for any purpose they, choose.

Books or magazines supply footnotes, which are placed at the bottom of the pages for quick reference. Similar, footnotes are placed in documents, at the bottom, and throughout the websites for reference to provide links for extended information. In some of these footnotes are links to adult content, which could put your child at risk.

The chat room was designed to compliment Bell, which people often utilize alias names to send messages to each other. From around the world people are in the chat rooms, day and night seeking dates, conducting business, or chatting with friends. At what time a person enters the chat room, they first note a featured theme, e.g., Music, Movies, Sports, and Romance, et cetera. Often times the theme is misused. People will often cyber rather than communicate the intended subject.

Be aware! An example of why internet child safety is important is because predators prey on children using the chat room as a device to snarl his or her victims into a web of danger. Often a predator will manipulate the child, making the child believe that he or she is speaking with someone of his or her own age. After gaining confidence, the predator then moves in for his intended purpose. With this in mind, I will provide a report that was not so long ago announced for your convenience, providing an idea of what we need to watch out for in the chat room.

Over in the UK, a couple was arrested for lowering a young girl into a web of sexual abuse. The girl was solicited and forced to adhere to gross sexual behaviors. The police walked into the room of a motel and found all types of adult content, including sexual devices, rubber stockings, magazines of pornographic nature, and condoms. The police awakened at the moment they acknowledged a fourteen-year old child had been molested by a man eight years her senior. This incident brought MSN to shutdown their networking chat rooms, disabling most people around the world to utilize this feature. At the same time, reports came into focus that announced more than one million users on the Internet suffered online dangers. Around 26 of this estimation were child abductions and/or rape, and the crimes resulted chat room correspondence. *

Now you might ask how can, I protect my child from online dangers. First, you need to learn the rules for child safety online. Teach your child not to give any personal information online, giving the information out to strangers, which includes e-mail addresses. Teach your child not to provide any personal information at non-secured sites, as well as posting information on Bulletin Boards, Forums, Chat Rooms, and so forth.

Learning all the rules and teaching these rules to your child can make all the difference in the world. Put internet child safety first and the rest will fall into place.

*The incident named in this article is not intended to overwrite original writers, rather the purpose is to demonstrate online dangers due to lack of child safety. This story proves a valuable tool to parents, since it might spark their interest, in increasing child safety.