Re: ideas needed

[Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller () gmail com>]

I happen to agree with you except.  I don't think giving your child
full unmonitored access is a good idea.  It's not the fear that
someone might abduct my child.  I think that can happen to anyone even
if your a excellent parent.  It's all the other cruft on the internet
that one could look at and be influenced with.  If you think about how
malleable a young mind is.  Do you want your child going down the same
road as John Phillip Walker Lindh? [1]  I know my child will have
access to other places that don't really filter internet access.  Like
the public library were anything goes.  I think the schools try and
keep an eye on what kids are doing though instructor supervision.



[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh




On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Mike Patterson <mike () snowcrash ca> wrote:
> On 2011/07/20 6:00 PM, CP Constantine wrote:
> > A good exercise for kids is sort of a re-work of the 1980's
> > dont-talk-to-strangers campaign. (which was basically, no matter how
> > much info they have that indicates they actually know you, still deny
> > trust). is getting kids to ask themselves, how much info about them
> > would a stranger have to know about them, before they might think this
> > person was actually a trusted family friend:- now put much less than
> > that online.
>
> One thing to be cautious of when trying to educate kids is the same
> thing that campaign tripped over. Turns out that kids aren't actually
> all that much endangered by strangers; parental kidnappings are far more
> common, as is abuse. Whoops.
>
> Something I see a lot (and this is a general comment inspired by yours,
> not an attack on yours) is ITSec folks getting *really* strident about
> OMG DO NOT SHARE ANYTHING EVER IT IS UNSAFE AND YOU WILL BE RAPED AND
> KILLED.
>
> Kids get messages like that a lot. About everything. They get
> overloaded, and tune you out. Hell, they tune you out anyway, but
> there's no reason to give them a real reason to do it. :-) So be
> moderate in how you present things.
>
> Mike
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