Should you monitor what your kids do online?
“As parents, we have to figure out where to draw the line between encouraging and allowing our teens to have autonomy, to experience their separate culture, and when we need to monitor their use of media,” says Kathryn Montgomery, author of Generation...United Methodist Church Online Social Network
BYU professor Phil Windley points out that the United Methodist Church now has an online social network. Read Phil’s comments about the site. What are your feelings about the value of such a site for LDS people?Safer Cyber-Playrooms
Did you catch the USA Today article today about Safer Cyber-Playrooms? Disney and Nickelodeon have created safe social network sites for kids 14 and under. Disney Extreme Digital and Nicktropolis are free, video-rich interactive Web sites with secure, kid-safe chat...Dangers of Pornography
Meridian Magazine just published a story on pornography entitled “Pornography: If it Quacks Like a Duck” about the dangers of pornography. Hopefully, we’ll recognize the dangers of pornography individually and as a society before it’s too late....Utah Sub-Committee Passes Resolution
Friday morning, a subcommittee of the Utah State Legislature unanimously passed a Resolution (H.C.R. 3) Urging Congress to Stop Interent Pornography to Children and Employees. This resolution would put the US Government on notice that the people of the State of Utah...Spam Accounts for 91% of all E-mail in the USA
According to the online security firm IronPort Systems, 62 billion spam messages a day clogged US e-mail systems in October–twice the volume of the previous October. They report that unwanted e-mail is currently 91% of all e-mail. The problem isn’t limited...Watch Out for Phishing Scams
In 2004, 57 million U.S. adults received phishing e-mails. In 2006, that’s up to 109 million. I get several a day among the dozens of spam e-mails I receive. Why? Because phishing works! Financial losses from phishing attacks rose to more than $2.8 billion in 2006....Internet Safety Resources
The new Gospel Topics section of the Gospel Library on LDS.org has an entry on “Internet” that has links to some valuable resources.Internet Safety Class at BYU Education Week
BYU Education Week always has great classes. This year, there will be a class on “Internet Safety: Learn and Teach Others to Be Safe” by Ron Schwendiman in the Varsity Theater, Wilkinson Student Center (WSC) Monday, August 21 from 2:00-5:00pm.Follow on social media