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Internet Intrusions
6 Ways to Protect Your Kids on the Web
By Steve Cross
4. Don't give strangers your address. You just don't want strange people showing up or stalking you. And this may sound silly, but it's already happened. There are weirdoes on the Internet who use fake identities. And don't give your phone number to strangers either.
5. Look at their MySpace pages. A friend of ours found out that his daughter's 13-year-old friend had posted pictures of herself in her underwear on MySpace. Her parents never looked at her MySpace pages. Kids don't have adult judgment; that's why they're kids. There have been two confirmed abductions of girls who displayed confidential information on MySpace, including a girl abducted in a mall outside Boston this year.
6. Look into Internet monitoring software, low-cost products that invisibly monitor the activities of your kids, and privately e-mail you the results as often as you like. The best of these software products track Internet sites visited, downloads, chat room conversations and IM.
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