TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: internet safety

  • Child advocate scoffs at MySpace. Scoffs, I tell you.

    Child advocate scoffs at MySpace. Scoffs, I tell you.

    Children’s Advocacy Group Scoffs at New MySpace Security Measures:

    Robert Fellmeth is the director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego. He’s not happy with the new proposed security measures that MySpace will be putting in place.

    I’m just concerned that parents will get a false sense of security that this is all taken care of because they’re handling it — and I don’t think they can handle it.

    He also has some advice for you.

    Fellmeth says parents need to be the first line of defense in monitoring children’s Internet use.

    You don’t send your kids sown a dark alley alone. Why should the internet be any different?

  • Stickam still flies under the radar

    Stickam still flies under the radar

    Teens turn to sites without monitoring:

    This article from a local Arizona news outlet brings up a great point.

    While soccer moms and politicians have their panties in a wad over MySpace, no one is paying attention to the more dangerous site, in my opinion, Stickam.

    Stickam is an unmonitored webcam chat site. To the unenlightened, that means that anybody of any age with a webcam can go on Stickam and basically show whatever they want.

    The site states that nudity will get you banned, but think about it. Who is really going to complain about nudity, since that’s pretty much what a lot of people are going there hoping to find?

    Further proof that politicians are clueless.