Teenagers live to circumvent rules. Any parental control you place on the Internet simply provides them something to circumvent, and they will.
The ONLY effective means to keep your teens from undesirable sites is threefold.
1.) Raise your kids right, be involved in their activities, be INTERESTED in them.
2.) Let them know how sad and dissapointed you will feel if you find that they have visited and spent time at an undesirable site. Most teens do want to please their parents.
3.) TRUST your teen. Let them shut the door when they are on-line. Don't get angry or spooked if they suddenly shut a bunch of stuff down when you walk by. DO expect that they will avoid undesirable sites and recognize that they will, from time to time (usually by accident) open an undesirable site.
Most teens will live up to and deserve your trust. Those that don't, well you can console yourself that you will not beable to control their Internet access anyway.
Just a note: I have a problem with the phrase "you can never dumb it down enough", you should not be "dumbing" it down at all. Speak ACROSS to people show them respect and try to explain your jargon.
Yes, it can be very tough to help a person who does not know ANY of the proper terms, you often find yourself guessing as to what they are talking about. When this happens look at it as an opportunity to educate the user about some of the specialized terminology (and that is a VERY good term to use -- specialized terminology.)
Yes, people do use the same term to mean different things. Why do you expect end-users to know YOUR language. It is not like they use it in every day life. In fact, many end-users (like accountants and lawyers) have their own specialized vocabularies which can, at times, intefere with the communications process.
It is always the responsibility of the user of a specialized language to make sure that the person he or she is speaking with understands your terminology.
Note: I am a programmer/analyst and communications analyst with over 20 years experience, including 8 years as a very successful tech support and teacher.
The real problem between techies and end users is one of communications. Techies often use terms and jargon and expect the end user to know them. When the end user doesn't, they think they are stupid or ignorant. Often they are neither, simply not familiar with the jargon of the techie world. The real problem is with the techie, they are the ones who have a primary responsibility to insure that end users understand them.
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Teenagers live to circumvent rules. Any parental control you place on the Internet simply provides them something to circumvent, and they will. The ONLY effective means to keep your teens from undesirable sites is threefold. 1.) Raise your kids right, be involved in their activities, be INTERESTED in them. 2.) Let them know how sad and dissapointed you will feel if you find that they have visited and spent time at an undesirable site. Most teens do want to please their parents. 3.) TRUST your teen. Let them shut the door when they are on-line. Don't get angry or spooked if they suddenly shut a bunch of stuff down when you walk by. DO expect that they will avoid undesirable sites and recognize that they will, from time to time (usually by accident) open an undesirable site. Most teens will live up to and deserve your trust. Those that don't, well you can console yourself that you will not beable to control their Internet access anyway.
Since ATM stands for Asyncronous Transfer Mode and Automatic Teller Machine is just marketspeak... What is your difficulty?
Just a note: I have a problem with the phrase "you can never dumb it down enough", you should not be "dumbing" it down at all. Speak ACROSS to people show them respect and try to explain your jargon. Yes, it can be very tough to help a person who does not know ANY of the proper terms, you often find yourself guessing as to what they are talking about. When this happens look at it as an opportunity to educate the user about some of the specialized terminology (and that is a VERY good term to use -- specialized terminology.)
Yes, people do use the same term to mean different things. Why do you expect end-users to know YOUR language. It is not like they use it in every day life. In fact, many end-users (like accountants and lawyers) have their own specialized vocabularies which can, at times, intefere with the communications process. It is always the responsibility of the user of a specialized language to make sure that the person he or she is speaking with understands your terminology. Note: I am a programmer/analyst and communications analyst with over 20 years experience, including 8 years as a very successful tech support and teacher.
The real problem between techies and end users is one of communications. Techies often use terms and jargon and expect the end user to know them. When the end user doesn't, they think they are stupid or ignorant.
Often they are neither, simply not familiar with the jargon of the techie world.
The real problem is with the techie, they are the ones who have a primary responsibility to insure that end users understand them.