L. Suzanne Shanks's Blog – April 2009 Archive (1)

Internet Safety and Digital Natives - A Letter to Parents

Recent research shows that some of our most prevalent ideas about web safety are just plain wrong. The very small percentage of children who are victimized in ways related to the Internet are those who: enter private chat rooms, discuss topics of a sexual nature, or meet offline with strangers. Internet offenders pretended to be teenagers in only 5% of the crimes studied by researchers. Visiting popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook do not appear to increase children’s… Continue

Added by L. Suzanne Shanks on April 17, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

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