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The purpose of this website is to help parents, teachers and students be
safe online. Many people, parents in particular, are frightened of the
Internet because they often hear of the dangers it presents. Yes, there
are situations that can be dangerous on the Internet, but it can also
play a positive role in our everyday lives.
Please take a look around and see how to protect you and your
children online.
Think you are already Internet savvy? Take this quiz with your child and
see!
http://www.safekids.com/quiz/index.html
or here's a fun
game to play
http://www.att.com/Common/images/safety/game.html
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Did you know…
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Students are being denied
college admission because of postings on the Internet.
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Students are being kicked
off sports teams because of information found on their blogs.
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Underage parties have
been busted because invitations were found online.
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According to the 2005
study by executive job-search agency ExecuNet, cited in the Chicago
Tribune, 75 percent of recruiters use web research as part of the
applicant screening process.
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There’s a verb, dooced,
for people who are fired for negative posts about their job.
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What you post never goes
away. It becomes public information. Even if you delete it on your
computer, it can be saved on anyone’s.
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With one quick search in
Google, anyone can learn how to hack into someone’s online account.
There they can read all your personal information, they can download
your personal photo’s, and they can even edit your material.
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Even if you personally do
not have an account. You may be in pictures found on friend’s
pages. Ask to see and ask to have them taken down.
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Internet crime is the
fastest growing crime in the U.S. and children are the fastest
growing victim pool.
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In the U.S., 95% of schools are now connected
to the internet.
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Over 45 million children ages 10 through 17 use
the internet. Among them:
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One in five has been sexually solicited
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One in four has encountered unwanted
pornography
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Close to 60% of teens have received an
e-mail or instant message from a stranger and half have
communicated back
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Over 75% on internet crimes involving
sexual solicitations of children and exposure to unwanted
pornography is not reported to police by parents.
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Close to 62% of teens say
their parents know little or nothing about the websites they
visit.
Read the article MySpace in College Admission written by the National
Association for College Admission Counseling for more details.
http://www.nacacnet.org/MemberPortal/News/StepsNewsletter/myspace_students.htm
Or read, What You Say Online Can Haunt You, written by Janet Kornblum
and Mary Beth Marklein from USA TODAY.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-03-08-facebook-myspace_x.htm
Check out this story on ChannelOne.com. FaceBook Revealed
http://www.channelone.com/news/2007/12/03/facebook/
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