Protecting Your Family
Safe Fun > Gaming
Do you know what online games your children are playing? Do you know who they are playing with?
Safety Tips:
- Always put your PC in a living area and from the start, set time limits for game playing. Tell your child to play only with their real friends and not ones they only know online.
- Tell your child to let you know if anything online is making them uncomfortable. Don't forget bullying happens online too.
- Remind them never to give out any personal information online. If someone wants to meet them, they must inform you at once.
- Don't allow your children to use voice chat ? you don't know who is talking to them.
- If they are being bullied or ripped off, tell them to inform you and other gamers.
- Get into their world and play the games with them. If you are an experienced gamer yourself, then help to police the games areas and keep them safe.
But it's not just games. Kids like to blog these days?
You can use this to get print outs of the Useful Tools content. 
Filter: Software programs which can classify content on the internet or block access to content.
Popups: Unsolicited adverts that suddenly appear.
Software: Systems software such as Windows operates the computer itself. Applications software such as word processing programmes allow you to work on the computer.
File sharing: Accessing files on one computer from a different computer.
Download: Transferring or copying files from one computer to another.
Internet Service Providers: A company that sells direct access to the internet e.g Microsoft; Yahoo; AOL.
Links, tips and more advice on internet security.