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Safe-Be SMART
Do you know what your child is doing on a laptop computer, mobile phone, iPod etc when alone? At school we teach children about Internet safety.

 
Social networking-Social networking allows many us to keep in contact
with people and to share
details and photos of what is happening in our lives. Young people
will have grown up surrounded by
sites such as Facebook, Bebo and Myspace. Social networking sites
will undoubtedly play an important
part in the lives of youngsters as they get older and we need to
ensure that we give them simple
guidance to ensure that they use them safety.
5 simple rules to discuss at home:
1. Adjust privacy settings-In Facebook you can select ¡¥Settings,
Privacy Settings, Profile¡¦. This will allow you to restrict who sees
information and prevents friends of friends seeing your posts and
photos. In Bebo you can do a similar task by selecting Settings
Privacy Settings¡¦. Remember that you can also restrict who sees each
photo.
2. Think before you post.-It is very easy to a post a comment or
photo in anger or frustration. By the time you remove it many people
will have seen it and the harm has been done.
3. Only add people who you know in real life as friends. Remember
that just because someone has a photo showing them as 15 year old in
their profile they may be someone completely different.
4. Think carefully about how much personal information you put on
your profile - you don¡¦t need to tell everyone your address, date of
birth and mobile number.
5. Pay attention to age restrictions - for example Facebook and Bebo
are for people aged 13 and over.
10 tips for parents
1. Set up an account for each user on your pc at home and only give
yourself administrator access. This will allow you to keep control of
the settings and the installation of software. Each user account you
can be password protected.
2. Add a screensaver protected by a password to your account so that
if you leave your PC for 5 minutes you will have to enter your
password. You can do this in the ¡¥Control Panel¡¦.
3. Encourage your family to use technology in a public part of the
house and not in a bedroom. This applies not just to pcs but also to
laptops, game consoles, internet browsers on phones etc.
4. Remember that many consoles come with family settings. For example
if you want to disable or limit ¡¥Xbox Live¡¦ on an Xbox 360 you can
do so by going to ¡¥Settings, Parental controls¡¦. There is also the
option to add a mask to voices so that a youngster¡¦s voice sounds
like that of an adult or even a robot.
5. Encourage your child not to open e-mails from unfamiliar e-mail
addresses and to avoid opening suspicious attachments. Remind your
child that if an e-mail seems too good to be true then there is
almost certainly a catch!
6. Ensure that you have a pop-up blocker turned on. Both Internet
Explorer and Firefox come with their own pop-up blockers. If you are
accessing a site that has a genuine pop up window that you need to
access you should add it to the trusted sites rather than turn off
the pop up blocker. The settings can be found in the Tools¡¦ menu of
the browser
If sufficient parents are interested we will run an evening for
parents about the dangers of cyberbullying.
I would be interested in a meeting at 7pm one evening tick box ƒx and
send into office. Date to be fixed