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Thinkuknow: What kids are up to online and how to protect them

  • June 16, 2015
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by Lisa Vaas on June 16, 2015
 


How do you teach a 5-year-old that people they meet online aren't always who they say they are?
 
What do you tell a 12-year-old who's being cyber-bullied?
 
A 15-year-old girl sends naked pics to her boyfriend, only to find out the next morning that everyone in school has seen them.
What should she do? Where can she get help?
 
Those are only a few of the myriad scenarios in which kids of various ages find themselves pressured online, be it from peers or predators, with often dire consequences.
 
Alarmingly, one of those potentially hazardous situations - sexting, with the invasion of privacy it so often brings - has become normalised in children's lives.
 
According to a 2013 poll of 500 children conducted by online safety centre ChildLine, 60% had been asked to send a sexual image or video.
 
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    1. How do you teach a 5-year-old that people they meet online aren't always who they say they are?
    • you tell them that on the internet EVERYONE LIES on the internet.   Even when presented a photo, it's probably fake or from the internet.  
     
    1. What do you tell a 12-year-old who's being cyber-bullied?
    • You teach them to hit the "squelch", "mute", "ignore"  button.
    • Make it into a game, where you force them to create new accounts and have them waste hours trying to cyber bully you as you mute their accounts.  lol
    • and if they keep pestering you i'll delete them like the digital garbage they are.  :)  
    A 15-year-old girl sends naked pics to her boyfriend, only to find out the next morning that everyone in school has seen them.
    What should she do? Where can she get help?
    • You don't ever send nude pictures....  Anything you send will eventually be seen by third parties.   Even the NSA trades nudes around the office. lol...    DO NOT SEND NUDES EVER....    
     
    I think the biggest part of our problem is...   The lack of education.    Instead of actually teaching kids  
    Do this  or Don't do this and show the nasty consequences.    We instead just depend on easily bypassable firewalls and net blocks...      In school we traded proxies.  lol...   Go to kproxy and baaaam  passed the netsense  lol   and when they blocked it... there was always a new one and we always stayed one step ahead of the websense.       I mean the websense was so locked down you couldn't even visit .edu websites to do research   x.x 
     
     
    in any case...   I still think the problem is because of education.     
     
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