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Do not allow them to "make friends" online
without your approval. Your child's online experience should begin with
communicating with those they do know.
Require your children to allow you
to "check out" anyone new before they add them to their friends. (I would do the first one with them.) Verify
their identity by checking the person who referred them to you.
Very
often people say they are friends with one of your friends but that is not the
case. The "friend of a friend" ploy is
commonly used by predators to get into the social communications structure of a
child. For how this works, a predator will observe several interrelated people
and then "pretend" to be John Smith, a friend of your child. Although John Smith
may be a real person, he actually has another screen name and your child is
conversing with a person who is not "John Smith" at all. The way you check this
out is by going to the person who "John Smith" says is his friend and sending
them an e-mail.
It could sound like this. "Hey. A guy named John Smith
with a screen name of ___ says he is your
friend and wants me to add him to my buddy list. Is he OK? Is that his screen
name?"
It is kind of like how my friends and I in college knew who the
guys were to watch out for and we helped each other and had a signal for a
person we knew was a "creep" and made that to one another. This is just a
protection mechanism that we need to teach our children.
I had initially
posted to "not allow your child to make friends online" and that is a decision
that some parents may choose to make. However, I do believe in progressive
(gradually increasing) Internet freedoms and the rules for my 10 year old would
not be appropriate for a 17 year old. Ultimately, they will make friends online,
so when you are ready for that to happen, teach them how to make friends
online.
Also, they should absolutely never allow their child to meet
someone that they've met online without consulting you. This is not debatable in
my opi

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/14/finland-broadband

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According to local reports, the Ministry of Transport and Communications in
Helsinki has pushed through a law that will force telecommunications providers
to offer high speed internet connections to all of the country's 5.3 million
citizens.
- lal09 wonder if it will happen in Alberta - on 2009-11-20
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