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Online Parent-Child Gap Widens
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids writes "A new study by Dafna Lemish from the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University has found that there is an enormous gap between what parents think their children are doing online and what is really happening. 'The data tell us that parents don't know what their kids are doing,' says Lemish. The study found that 30% of children between the ages of 9 and 18 delete the search history from their browsers in an attempt to protect their privacy from their parents, that 73% of the children reported giving out personal information online while the parents of the same children believed that only 4% of their children did so, and that 36% of the children admitted to meeting with a stranger they had met online while fewer than 9% of the parents knew that their children had been engaging in such risky behavior. Lemish advises that parents should give their children the tools to be literate Internet users and most importantly, to talk to their children. 'The child needs similar tools that teach them to be [wary] of dangers in the park, the mall or wherever. The same rules in the real world apply online as well.'"
16 is old enough to drink in several countries, it is old enough to meet with other people. I have with people I meet online, but mostly because I find we go to the same school, or are in the same major.
No, not the Internet as we know it. TCP/IP was built 26 years ago. But there was UUCP, BBS and other stuff, so it's possible that he's telling the truth. But if he is telling the truth, he and his wife must both be total nerds. Only nerds were online that long ago.
the parent-technology gap? I mean who's going to educate the kids about the dangers of the Internet when the kids know more about the Internet than their parents? I know a lot of parents that click on those "warning your computer is infected with viruses" banners. Can you imagine if they told their kids, "Click on that! We must have a virus!"
You want fun, go home and buy a monkey!
TrueCrypt drives hidden inside windows folder and called something like "systemdll.chm".
TrueCrypt installation on a stick or inside Windows/System32/Encryption.
Easy as pie.
Mmm, pie.
As a parent:
Password protect the BIOS. Remove booting from anything but the hard drive and lock the case away. All you get is a keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
And www.safeeyes.com for a Windows based monitoring package.
Layne
You have no idea what you're talking about.
In the early 80's there were lots of people using BBSs and university systems to talk to each other, and very few of them had much interest in technology. I played a lot on a bunch of local BBSs in the early 80s and while I was a geek, and the guys who ran the BBSs were geeks, a fair percentage of the people were kids using their dad's computer and had no computer knowledge beyond knowing how to run a program.
I met my wife on-line 21 years ago, and she had (and has) no interest in computer technology. We were both attending the same university and we met via a VMS chat program (called "PHONE", IIRC). My wife had taken an intro to computers course with some friends and they'd learned how to use PHONE to chat with each other. The program had a "directory" feature that showed who else was on-line. My wife had picked a funny (and obviously feminine) username and when I saw her name on-line, I decided to "phone" her to see what the person who'd pick that name was like. After chatting for a while, we arranged a face-to-face meeting and things proceeded from there.
20-30 years ago, the percentage of the population that had access to on-line communications wasn't large, but it was larger than you might think and it was very diverse. In my experience, only 10-20% were interested in technology.
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