Friday, April 28, 2006

The internet


Ok so I have been little worried about things. Especially my kids when they are here. (mom holly is not pregnant) If you watched channel 2 news last night at 10 p.m. They did an article about a local radio station that does a program called scared straight. You can view what they have written here: http://www.971zht.com/pages/scaredstraight/ it is a hyper link so please click on it. I HIGHLY recommend reading it. What they do is every Thursday morning they bring in their laptop into the office and get online. They pose as a 13 year old girl, and just sit there. Within a few seconds they have someone trying to talk to them. They don't know who is online with them for all we know it is a really old fat man. So they start to chat with the person and try and get a phone number out of him. They call him on the air and start to talk to him. These guys are just gross and nasty. What they say to a 14 year old girl is horrible. So before they start into the nasty nasty talk one of the male radio people gets on the phone and starts to talk to them. From here they give the IP address and the phone number to the internet task force. So after reading/hearing about it I did a little research myself there is a product out there called cybersitter http://www.cybersitter.com/cybinfo.htm it is a great program that filters out bad content as well as recording all chats so that you (the parent) can read what your child is having a conversation with to make sure you child is not talk to a pedophile.

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