Comments on: Norton Releases Kids' Top 100 Searches 2009

By: Cammie (CyberSafeFamily)

Cammie (CyberSafeFamily) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:41:08 +0000

My Life Is,

Not sure why it wasn’t working but it is now.

Thanks,
Cammie

By: My Life Is

My Life Is — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:17:45 +0000

Thanks for letting us check out the link but unfortunately it seems to be down? Does anyone have a different URL?

By: Gayle

Gayle — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:21:37 +0000

For any young child (5-11/12) some form of filter/kid safe browser is really required. If parents do not want to try to configure standard browsers for parental control the easiest way around that is to download a kids browser. If the computer is set of for the kids to sign in then that kid browser will be the only thing they can use to go onto the internet. Kidzui is free for a very basic version that really works well. It send reports to parents with details about where kids go, what videos and pictures they looked at etc. For a small yearly fee they can get special customizations and other game areas. MyKidsBrowser is also very good and allows a 30 day trial, after which, it must be purchased. These only work well for younger kids since they are very limiting and designed for younger play. For older kids there are other filtering programs to use but the best is open communications with your kids. Teach them digital citizenship and responsibility. Its not the technology its the behavior!

By: RCEmom

RCEmom — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:19:02 +0000

I am not too surprised by the results, it just makes me sad that this is so easily accessed. I know kids don’t even have to search for it but if you don’t have some sort of filtering, it will make it’s way onto the search results.

I don’t care to see these images when I search so I use filters on my account. Because of this, I tend to forget the results that appear when I search somewhere else and am always surprised.

By: Mom22

Mom22 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:47:33 +0000

This has been an eye opening article. I would have never guessed that kids would search for sex, much less porn at that young age.

As a grandmother, I should consider parental controls so when my grandkids visit I can have some peace of mind that they are unable to access it from my home!

Thanks for the information and I will look into K9 Web Protection since it is free!