Internet Safety

In this day and age, parents need to be particularly vigilant in protecting their children while on line. Children are very trusting and don't realize what danger might lurk at the end of the connection they have made with their computer. It is very easy to start typing and not really consider who one's audience is. Kids like to vent and it is very possible that they might find a seemingly kind and willing listener with bad intentions and not have a clue to what they might be set up for. In many ways, it might seem easier to express oneself when not speaking face to face with someone.



I am very careful not to give out personal information while online. When you consider that you would not walk up to a stranger on the street and start telling him/her the most intimate details of your life, why would you do so with a stranger whose face you have never seen? The internet is a great and powerful thing, but the prudent thing to do is not to put everything out there for the world to see. Common sense must rule.