We had training at school for the children year 6 abut internet safety. It was presented by the police. It was good. I wanted to tell you about the site:

Thinkuknow - home

It is a site about how to be safe and they can also report any problem /abuse they are worried about.

It explains how they can say no if they have a person trying to meet up with them etc etc but anyway i wanted to just alert you to it.

I was really shocked watching the sex education show the other night when they said the sort of things teenagers were accessing.

Horrific

this is really important - it was quite a shock to hear some of the experiences some of the year 6(10 and 11 year olds) were having and quite how much they knew about 'life'. I want all the parents on here to see this site as it is FULL of useful info.

Great link - lots of info for kids and young adults and their parents.

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Can i make it clear it is also possible to REPORT abuse too so its a useful link point a bit like childline.

Thanks for that.

I have done the survey of one of them aswell

I have contacts on my msn, sending me numerous amount of Porn sites aswell they are genuine people, but have their accounts hacked - which really gets on my nerves

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I have a related story... Sort of.

On my short story website I have a form where people could tell about someone they know that succeeded against the odds.

Immediately I got a message someone wanted to publish such a story. Eagerly I went to read it. Sounded good. A guy who got in to the military without college degree. And now travels lecturing others how they can be anything they want to be. There were two links in his post. The first one was on his own name, and it was "under construction".

The other link was to a book Myspace page. I saw the cover of the book and thought it looked a bit more... well, sexy to my tastes. I also looked at the comments on the Myspace site. All from women, and not very family friendly, so to speak.

I did a google search on his name and his company name that was mentioned in the article. I did not find it immediately, but after fifteen minutes of digging it turned out that guys company was an "adult entertainment film" company. I´m sure you all get what that means.

I know for a fact I have at least one child following me on Twitter. Even if I had left the links out of this story, people might be curious enough to try to search for him. Imagine if this child who follows me on Twitter would have done so? For example to do some school project? And landed on who-knows-what-kind of a page! If I had just accepted this article without checking, who knows what would have appeared on the "under construction" page!!

These folks are soooo sneaky to get their "message" across. Thank goodness I am a bit "paranoid" in checking the articles. How embarrassing if I had been a factor in sending a child to a (censored) page! Even the thought makes me feel sick!

Leena

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Great link. i'll pass that on to my boyfriend. He works at a primary school and the headmaster might be interested in that link.

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Thank You, I'll pass it on to my mum for her school.. It is sooooo scary what's out there now, when I was that age The most technical my childhood got was a skipping rope which counted the number of 'skips' then I was elated when I got an Acorn Electron and used to play repton!!!

What a sheltered life!!! I wish kids were still that innocent!!!

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It's really good there are now educational stuff for the parents on how they can guard their kids while surfing the internet. There are lots of things that kids can see, they are really accessible. So parents should really be cautious for their kids.

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