Using the Internet Safely For Seniors

➟ Do you borrow money to gamble? ➟ Have you sold personal belongings to get money to gamble? ➟ Have you stolen from your family, ...

Figure 10-11 Figure 10-12 It’s up to you if you want to use the buttons on the left for rating the ads you view here. Obviously, ...

available to their advertisers to market other products or services to you. Others may push spam at your e-mail. Read terms of s ...

210 Part II: Using the Internet While Dodging the Risk ...

Grandparents Rule! W hether you have grandkids (or grand nieces or nephews) that live at a distance — or you’re a child’s care g ...

Understand How Kids Use the Internet Your first step in helping kids is to understand what services they’re using online and wha ...

The odds are that your grandkids are getting far more benefit from the Internet than harm, but just as you pay attention to thei ...

Here are some steps to help you get started making a safer online expe- rience for the whole family: ➟ Discuss online safety pos ...

➟ It may make sense for you to set an access password on your user account so that grandchildren can’t go into your files withou ...

➟ Work together, find out how and where to report abuse on every service your grandchildren use. Create an environment that enco ...

➟ Talk to teens about who they communicate with and what they talk about. Set boundaries that match your family’s values and you ...

➟ Teach them not to list their IM names publicly, for example on their social networking pages, or respond to IMs from people th ...

➟ Familiarize yourself with all the features in the IM program your grandchild wants to use and consider potential risks. IM pro ...

➟ Help kids evaluate the questions that services ask in the registration process. There’s a clear difference between required in ...

Figure 11-4 ➟ Teach them to understand what they share (see Chapter 7 to learn this for yourself). It’s often very difficult to ...

Blog Safely Social networking sites allow users to interact with each other in many ways, and to share their thoughts through bl ...

had a disagreement. One of the most common causes of cyberbullying is the breakup of a friendship; the content they have on thei ...

➟ Help them to understand how to really see what information is being shared. Most social networking sites show the user’s profi ...

Figure 11-6 Understand Exposure in Quizzes and Surveys Quizzes and surveys that your grandchildren find online (see Figure 11-7) ...

Figure 11-7 Teach children in your care to assume that ➟ Information entered in quizzes and surveys is being sold. By reviewing ...