This week in Tampa, Florida a 15 year old girl was found by police in the bed of a registered sex offender she had met in an on-line chat room. Bsafe would like to say had her parents installed a filter like Bsafe Online on the family’s computer this tragedy may have been prevented. However it’s being reported that the young girl as well as the 42-year-old criminal accessed the Internet via their cell phones.
Internet-enabled cell phones, like the new product introduced this week, allow pornographic and sexual content previously filtered on the home computer to be accessed by your child anywhere, anytime all in the palm of his or her hand. To date there is no software available to filter a phone’s graphic content or monitor chat rooms and instant message sites like Bsafe can do on the home PC.
Bsafe, as always, urges parents to be more involved in their child’s online life and offers these tips to keep your child safe from online dangers:
1. Install a filter on the home computer, and always be aware of other places your child may access the Internet.
2. Find out what, if any, parental controls are used at your child’s school, his or her friend’s home and even the public library.
3. Set clear boundaries with your children about not only the computer, but wireless devices.
4. Educate yourself about wireless devices that provide unfiltered Internet access before purchasing it for your children.
5. Ask wireless providers about available parental controls.
6. Monitor your child’s computer and cell phone use.
Parents wanting to best protect their children from potential online dangers should consider keeping your child’s Internet experience limited to the home computer with parental controls installed, like Bsafe Online.
About Bsafe Online, Inc.
Bsafe Online, based in Bristol, Tennessee is a pioneer in the Internet Filtering industry. Bsafe Online is consistently ranked as a leading content filter provider protecting families from Internet threats in all 50 states as well as nearly 50 foreign countries. Bsafe is powered by BSecure Technologies a CES award winning technology provider.