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My son produced a pamphlet for his school on internet safety. His one tip had me speechless :)

"Never search sexual things under the age of 18 as they will ruin your social life and you will become addicted"

Guess there's no need for net nanny any longer :)
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hahahaha! Awh...that's kinda sweet...and worrying...and...
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that advice is waaaaay too late for me. :(
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can i get a copy of that for my 15 y.o.? :biggrin:
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They should change it to : "Never search sexual things under the age of 18 as they kill you on the spot. No, seriously."

All joking aside.... what are you people doing about your kids internet searching?

I've got Internet Explorer locked down pretty well I think.

Anyone using services/programs like Net Nanny and if so what do you think?
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we need to do something with our son's computer, but for now, he is set up in our living room, which is where we spend the majority of our time, so he has little privacy.
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we had ours in the dining room when our son was underage and i searched everything he did. and he stilled managed to find unsavory characters. thanks to the damn chat function. i disabled it.
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My kid plays Runescape and finds the dumbest movie clips on youtube
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For all of you parents out there, let me tell you that with unrestricted access to the internet (And I'm only 22, by the way,) I'd found porn by the time I was nine. And this was in the olden days.

Also, beware myspace.

Actually, block everything but Wikipedia.
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and even wikipedia.
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James wrote:and even wikipedia.
Yeah. Just unplug the computer.
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Emotional Leper wrote:
James wrote:and even wikipedia.
Yeah. Just unplug the computer.
Probably safest.

I had some freeware net-nanny-type program when the kids were younger -- Prowler, I think it was called. They complained about it, which I took to mean that it was doing its job. :) Then Batty got her own laptop when she was in 9th grade. I didn't put any sort of nanny program on it. Didn't even think about it. BIG mistake. Pretty soon she was reading yaoi fanfiction, and it went downhill from there... :roll:
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yaoi fanfiction... is that slash?
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Emotional Leper wrote:For all of you parents out there, let me tell you that with unrestricted access to the internet (And I'm only 22, by the way,) I'd found porn by the time I was nine. And this was in the olden days.

Also, beware myspace.

Actually, block everything but Wikipedia.
MY son would never look at porn. LOLOOLOLOOOLOLOL!
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sgt.null wrote:yaoi fanfiction... is that slash?
Yessir, I believe so.
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our kid was into i/m. women/girls would send racy pics, prose of promises. some scams and some desperate people getting into bad situations. we actually called at least two to lecture them on improper conduct and the dangers of.
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Maybe having their fingers off might be the safest.
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blinding them. then they are dependant on you to describe everything.
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For some reason this thread reminds of a teacher's quote in the paper a couple of days ago. When asked by the student's mother, "Do you know what type of video game should I buy to help improve Johnny's reading skills?" she replied, "Yeah, it's called a book!" :P
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