Internet Safety & Social Networking Sites

Internet Safety: Online Safety Tips

Common Sense Media

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan

http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/children/safetytips.html

NetSmartz

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

http://www.netsmartz.org/netparents.htm

A Parent’ s Guide to Internet Safety

Federal Bureau of Investigation

http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm

Think Before You Post

Cybertip Line

http://tcs.cybertipline.com/knowthedangers8.htm

That’s Not Cool

The Family Violence Prevention Fund & Ad Council

http://www.thatsnotcool.com/

iKeepSafe

Internet Keep Safe Coalition

http://www.ikeepsafe.org/PRC/

10 ‘MUST KNOW’ Actions that will help you to protect your family!

Video on the bottom of the page

http://www.ikeepsafe.org/PRC/videotutorials/index.php

Connect Safely

http://www.connectsafely.org/

Social Networking

Stop Cyberbullying

Parry Aftab and the wired Safety Group

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/

Net Bullies: preventing and handling cyberbullying

Parry Aftab, Cyber lawyer

http://netbullies.com/pages/1/index.htm

Hateful Content: Tips to Protect Kids Online

Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/family/activities/hatefulcontent.mspx

How to Stay Safe on Facebook

Video explanation of Facebook settings (7 minutes)

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-stay-safe-on-facebook

Parental Control

Here are some sites that might be a good place to start looking at the different options beyond your service provider.

2009 Internet Filter Software Product Comparisons

TopTenREVIEWS, Inc.

http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com

Open DNS

Free. Can click Start Using DNS and then choose the video tutorial to see more before downloading.

http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/

K-9 Web Protection

Free for home use.

http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

Free beta Download for Parent Care from MySpace Parents

Track all MySpace accounts on your computer.

http://www.ikeepsafe.org/parentcare/index.php

Net Nanny

Filtering and blocking software. Offers a 14 day free trial.

http://www.netnanny.com/

McGruff Safeguard

Monitoring software. Free account. Records and monitors Google, MySpace, FaceBook, AOL, msn, Yahoo.

http://www.gomcgruff.com/m/index.asp

Spector Pro

Monitors on line activity including email, web sites, keystrokes. Provides screen snapshots.

http://www.spectorsoft.com/