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SURF SAFELY
Helping our children to be safe
while surfing the Internet
Prepared by Pastor Damian Chambers,
Director, Communication, Public Affairs and
Religious Liberty, CJC
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Introduction
• Gone are the days when, in order to keep their children safe,
all parents needed to do was to keep their children “off the
road.”
• The invention of the Internet has widened the field of parenting
and pose new dangers to our children.
• The Internet might be a virtual world, but the dangers it
presents are real.
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Introduction
•All the dangers that can be found in the world has its
online counterpart.
•How parents would allow their children to wander freely
in the streets at night? Yet we allow them to wander
freely on the internet?
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What is the Internet?
• The Internet is simply the largest computer network in the world. It
links several billion devices (computers, smart phones, tablets,
television, cars, etc) worldwide.
• Wikipedia: It is a network of networks that consists of millions of
private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local
to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and
optical networking technologies.
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History of the Internet
• The internet traces its origins to the ARPAnet, created by the US
Defence Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency in the
1960s.
• At the end of 1969, there were only four computers on ARPAnet, and
they were all at US universities. This grew to 5,000 internet hosts in
1986, after which the number of users grew rapidly into the millions
and then hundreds of millions.
• Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/
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Internet Usage today
World Regions
Population
( 2014 Est.)
Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/ Date: Dec. 31, 2014
Internet Users
Dec. 31, 2000
Internet Users
TODAY
Penetration
(% Population)
Growth
2000-2014
Users %
of Table
Africa
1,125,721,038
4,514,400
297,885,898
26.5 %
6,498.6 %
9.8 %
Asia
3,996,408,007 114,304,000
1,386,188,112
34.7 %
1,112.7 %
45.7 %
Europe
825,824,883 105,096,093
582,441,059
70.5 %
454.2 %
19.2 %
Middle East
231,588,580
3,284,800
111,809,510
48.3 %
3,303.8 %
3.7 %
North America
353,860,227 108,096,800
310,322,257
87.7 %
187.1 %
10.2 %
Latin America/
Caribbean
612,279,181
18,068,919
320,312,562
52.3 %
1,672.7 %
10.5 %
36,724,649
7,620,480
26,789,942
72.9 %
251.6 %
0.9 %
7,182,406,565 360,985,492
3,035,749,340
42.3 %
741.0 %
100.0 %
Oceana/
Australia
WORLD TOTAL
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Positive Use of the Internet
1.
Communication
• Email, Social Media, Websites, Online Conference Calls
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Shopping/Selling
Education (Formal and Non-formal)
Evangelism (Live-stream church services, Bible Study, etc)
Up-to-date and Global News and Information
Entertainment (Music and Videos)
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Dangers of the Internet
1.
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3.
4.
5.
Pornography – easy access to explicit sexual content
Online Gambling
Sexual Predators – predators usually conceal their identify
Sexting – sharing nude photos among peers
Lost of Privacy – social media open the door for “broadcasting
yourself”. Youth are often naïve to what is appropriate to share
6. Occult and Extremist Groups – e.g. Charlie Charlie game, ISIS
7. Damaged reputation – Once content is shared, you lose control over it.
Employers usually check social media accounts before employing
candidates for a new job
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Age-based guidelines for kids'
Internet use
Up to age 10
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Age-based guidelines for kids' Internet use (< 10 yrs)
• It's never too early to foster open and positive communication with
children. It's a good idea to talk with them about computers and to
stay open to their questions and curiosity.
• Always sit with your kids at this age when they're online.
• Set clear rules for Internet use.
• Insist that your children not share personal information such as their
real name, address, phone number, or passwords with people they
meet online.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Age-based guidelines for kids' Internet use (< 10 yrs)
• Most social media sites do not allow children this age to create
profile. Do not allow or help your child to bypass this rule.
• If a site encourages kids to submit their names to personalize the web
content, help your kids create online nicknames that don't give away
personal information.
• Use family safety tools to create appropriate profiles for each family
member and to help filter the Internet.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Age-based guidelines for kids'
Internet use
Up to age 11 - 14
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Age-based guidelines for kids' Internet use (11-14yrs)
• Set clear rules for Internet use.
• Set family safety tools on the medium security setting, which should
have some limitations on content, websites, and activities.
• Keep Internet-connected computers in an open area where you can
easily supervise your kids' activities. Internet connected computer
should not be placed inside their bedrooms
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Age-based guidelines for kids' Internet use (11-14yrs)
• Help protect your children from offensive pop-up windows by using
the pop-up blocker that's built in to most web browsers
• Encourage your children to tell you if something or someone online
makes them feel uncomfortable or threatened. Stay calm and remind
your kids they are not in trouble for bringing something to your
attention. Praise their behavior and encourage them to come to you
again if the same thing happens.
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Age-based guidelines for kids'
Internet use
Up to age 15 - 18
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Age-based guidelines for kids' Internet use (15 – 18yrs)
• Continue to keep family communication as open and positive about computers as you can.
Keep talking about online lives, friends, and activities, just as you would about other
friends and activities.
• Encourage your teens to tell you if something or someone online makes them feel
uncomfortable or threatened. If you're a teen and something or someone online doesn't
seem quite right, then speak up.
• Create a list of Internet house rules as a family. Include the kinds of sites that are off
limits, Internet hours, what information should not be shared online, and guidelines for
communicating with others online, including social networking.
• Keep Internet-connected computers in an open area and not in a teen's bedroom.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Age-based guidelines for kids' Internet use (15 – 18yrs)
• Know which websites your teens visit, and whom they talk to.
Encourage them to use monitored chat rooms, and insist they stay in
public chat room area.
• Insist that they never agree to meet an online friend.
• Teach your kids not to download programs, music, or files without
your permission. File-sharing and taking text, images, or artwork
from the web may infringe on copyright laws and can be illegal.
• Talk to your teenagers about online adult content and pornography.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Age-based guidelines for kids' Internet use (15 – 18yrs)
• Be aware of the websites that your teens frequent. Make sure your
kids are not visiting sites with offensive content, or posting personal
information. Be aware of the photos that teens post of themselves
and their friends.
• Make sure your teens check with you before making financial
transactions online, including ordering, buying, or selling items.
• Discuss online gambling and its potential risks with your teens.
Remind them that it is illegal for them to gamble online.
Source: https://www.microsoft.com
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Conclusion
• Children are to be protected from dangers online equal to dangers in
real world.
• Dangers online are just as real
• We may not be Computer savvy, but we do have a responsibility to
parent our children on or offline.
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