On line safety is a must
October 29th, 2007 at 3:04 pm (Internet)
The first thing I hard this morning was on the news. I normally turn it on for background noise or to find out what the weather will be. They where talking about a young women, who lost her life because of trusting someone on the internet. This is sad, and should never happen, sadly it does happen. Now days we can not believe someone is who they are claiming to be, we don’t know if they are safe or not. What is really amazing is many parents do not have any clue what their children are doing on the internet or just how much trouble they may fine.
Parents know what your kids are doing even if they will hate you for it. Later when they get older they will be thankful for it. I wish my mom was more protective of my sister and I, she wasn’t. I have a nephew who I am very concerned about because he has a page, personally I believe it’s giving out way to much information and is putting him in danger of selfish ugly predators. His mom claims she don’t have control over what her 12 year son does. Well that is a bunch of bull.
This world isn’t anything like it was about 10 to 15 years ago, there where more people who where trust worthy. Now days trusting someone you have never met could get you killed, you could have just signed a death sentence. I am sorry to be so strong with this, I am just so tired of seeing TV Programs, hearing the news, and reading the paper and reading about young people who have their lives destroyed or taken from them.
When on line do not give out your telephone number, your address or any information that will help a person find where you live. I know, I have given my telephone number and address to a few people and it ended up being okay. With that being said I gave it out and got to live for a few months in fear, that was one of the worst experiences I have had on line.
People can be trusted just make sure you know they are trustworthy before trusting them. Don’t let your kids unsupervised on the internet is like giving them a poisonous tamed snake, one day it will strike when they are feeding it.
