MySpace has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on it’s popular networking website. This highlights the need for concern over the safety of our children when spending time on the internet.
The FBI has issued a Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety that I highly recommend for anyone with children. Particulary, the FBI warns parents to tell their children:
- to never arrange a face-to-face meeting with someone they meet online;
- to never post pictures of themselves onto the Internet or online service to be viewed by people they do not personally know;
- to never give out identifying information such as their name, home address, school name, or telephone number;
- to never download pictures from an unknown source, as there is a good chance there could be sexually explicit images;
- to never respond to messages or bulletin board postings that are suggestive, obscene, belligerent, or harrassing;
- that whatever they are told by people they meet online may not be true.
