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Overview
Parents and teachers are often ill-equipped to deal with the variety of devices and applications such as email, instant messaging, browsing, blogs, cell phones, and personal digital assistant devices (PDAs) that can facilitate the dangers lurking online. How to Protect Your Children on the Internet offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which youth use such technologies and exposes the risks they represent. At the same time, it provides a roadmap that will enable parents and teachers to become more engaged in children's online activities, arming them with techniques and tips to help protect their children. Smith underscores his arguments through chilling, real-life stories, revealing approaches people are using to deceive and to conceal their activities online. Filled with practical advice and recommendations, his book is indispensable to anyone who uses the Internet and related technologies, and especially to those charged with keeping children safe.
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
"Smith outlines methods for protecting children against online threats. He describes recent tragedies and shows how to protect against specific dangers, for parents or educators of children from age eight to 17. He specifically discusses how to monitor children online, with recommendations for surfing, blogs, and social networking; email; instant messaging and voice-over-IP, cell phones, and PDAs; and talking to children about risks. Information has been drawn from research reports, case studies, child advocacy organizations and web sites, interviews with experts and parents, and the author's own experiences as a parent, technology professional, and educator."
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Reference & Research Book News
"[A] thorough if occasionally geeked-out look at the technologies children are using and the steps parents must take to minimize their kids' chances of having a bad experience online. Smith, the chief information officer for the World Wildlife Fund, shows the 5 million ways your kids can get around the basic barriers many parents set up. He advocates a more deliberate, comprehensive approach, including aggressively limiting your child's Internet use: For middle schoolers, he recommends banning instant messaging, blocking search engines such as Google and denying access to free e-mail services such as Yahoo Mail. The amount of technical detail will liberate some and overwhelm others (hey, welcome to the Internet, folks), but you can always skip to Smith's helpfully specific recommendations, including which filtering and monitoring programs work best."
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The Washington Post
"[S]hares the risks of the Internet by detailing recent, real-world tragedies and revealing some of the secrets of online activities. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which youth use such technologies and exposes the risks they represent."
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Meet the Author
GREGORY S. SMITH is Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Information Technology at the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C. and Adjunct Professor in the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education Graduate Programs at The Johns Hopkins University. He is an expert in the field of information technology with several technical articles and public speaking engagements to his credit. In addition, he is the author of Straight to the Top: Becoming a World-Class CIO.
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction to Technology and Risks on the Internet
Welcome to the Internet 3
Growing Up 3
The Internet: What Is It? 6
Recommendations 12
Back to School 15
Internet Technologies Defined: Education 101 15
Recommendations 42
Risks Overview: Are Parents Making the Grade? 45
An Overview of Online Risks 45
Some Statistics for Kids Going Online 62
How Are Parents Doing Protecting Their Kids? 64
Protection at School and in Libraries 69
Recommendations 71
The Risks of Going Online 74
A Sampling of Unfortunate Events 74
Recommendations 80
A Road Map to Protect Children While Online
How to Monitor Your Kids Online 85
To Monitor or Not to Monitor 85
Tricks Kids Use to Hide What They're Doing 85
Nontechnical Parental Monitoring 88
Software for Better Monitoring 89
Recommendations 97
Internet Surfing, Blogs, and Social Networking 101
Surfing/Browsing the Internet 101
Search Engines: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 101
Social Networking and Blogging 105
Video Cameras Gone Wild 109
Firewalls and Wireless 112
Recommendations 114
Email 118
Email Options and Programs 118
Email Risks 120
Kid-Friendly Email Programs 121
Tricks Kids Use to Hide Email Activities 122
Blocking Free Email Services 122
File Attachment Risk 123
Don't Forget about Spam 123
Recommendations 124
Instant Messaging and Voice-over-IP 129
IM Basics and Tools 129
IM Lingo Parents Must Know 132
Blocking IM: It's Not Easy 132
Chat Rooms: A Hangout for Predators 136
Making Phone Calls over the Internet 137
How Predators Find Their Victims 137
Recommendations 139
Cell Phones and PDAs 142
An Overview of Portable Communication Devices 142
Text Messaging: How Teens Communicate 149
Monitoring Call Logs and Bills 149
Browsing and IM Challenges with PDAs 150
Recommendations 151
A Glimpse into the Future 155
Converging Devices 155
Free Stuff Everywhere (Advertisers' Heaven) 156
Global Positioning Takes Off 156
Built-in Security for Future Operating Systems 156
Futuristic Ways to Stay Connected 157
Recommendations 161
Talking to Your Kids about Online Risks 162
An Internet Usage Contract 162
When and How to Be Firm 164
What Not to Say to Your Teen 164
Advice from the Pros (Child Psychologists) 165
Recommendations 167
Notes 171
Bibliography 181
Index 187