Parents Beware:Protect Children From Internet Abuse

Internet experts have launched The Think B4U campaign to create awareness in school ‎children about using the internet with caution and to safeguard them from exposure to ‎paedophiles, hackers and similar online criminals. Teachers and parents must also be ‎aware of the risks involved in shopping online or getting carried away through social ‎networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.‎

Schools based in Kent displayed posters and e-safety literature to mark the Europe-wide ‎Safer Internet Day.‎

Although the internet is a very useful entity, many crooks exploit the internet posing ‎serious threats to innocent children. Schools have to educate students about such risks, ‎and parents as well as caretakers should ensure that online content is not harmful to their ‎children. All of us have to work together to ensure the safety of the online world to ‎enable children to learn and play using the right contents.‎

Miscreants like Joseph Peacock, 21, from Tonbridge, have posted obscene content to ‎young impressionable girls by misusing sites like Facebook.‎ Police have records of hundreds of internet paedophiles and other similar internet-related ‎offenders. The increasing number of parties being advertised over Facebook, has led to ‎crimes involving uninvited guests and violence.‎

Important details of a person posted on a social website always had the potential to fall ‎into the wrong hands; their online actions have offline consequences. Many evil minded ‎crooks are hiding behind a computer, a mobile phone or a games console, to rob you, ‎blackmail you or endanger your life.‎

‎66 per cent of children today admit lying to their parents, while 44 per cent hide ‎unsuitable internet material from parents. No parent would allow a stranger to play with ‎their kid, so it must be with internet too.‎