How To: Keep Your Kids Safe Online

By Chris Nickson
March 7th, 2007

Being online is part of the world of every kid these days. For teenagers it's the main way of communicating with friends (along with their cell phones), while younger ones use it for gaming (such things as Runescape, for example) and research. It's an inescapable fact of life, and kids spend an average of 16 hours a week online – a figure that continues to rise. But how safe are they in cyberspace?

According to a UK survey, 30% of kids have made friends online, and 8% have met face to face. 57% came in contact with online porn, mostly by accident. The US Internet Crimes Task Force has reported that in the last year over five and a half million kids received unwanted sexual solicitations while online. Put those figures together and they're quite disturbing; your kid is at risk.

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