Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Reasons Why Parents Should Have Child Monitoring Software

By Charles Stevens


More and more people are getting access to the internet daily. This trend is not only limited to adults but is inclusive to youngsters as well. This is because of significant technological developments that have enabled many households to get access to the Internet. The need for parents to stay in touch with kids has warranted the purchasing of smart phones for them. While it is important to know what and where your kid is, it is more vital to control their activities on the phone as well. This prevents them from accessing adult sites, sending sexual content like nude selfies and interaction with strangers. Child monitoring software helps in this aspect.

This program is easy to use and it allows parents to monitor all the activities of their kids by viewing reports sent to an online control panel. Information collected includes GPS locations, browser history, text messages, photos taken, contacts, apps installed and emails. Some apps have the capability of tracking the GPS of the phone as well as viewing its screen in real time. Below are reasons why this monitoring is necessary.

It is very easy to access adult content online. Many pornography sites do not have proper restrictions to keep out young people. One can very easily lie about their age or use their Google account to enter such sites and download videos. Other common adult sites visited include gambling sites that can turn kids into addicts of this vice.

Kids usually interact with many individuals throughout their normal day. Such interactions occur at school, the zoo, parks and on school tours. These interactions usually end up continuing through communication either online on via text messages and calls. The software allows parents to monitor what their children communicate and with whom.

Children can easily fall victims to cyber identity theft when they give out vital personal information online. Many characters are out to compromise other identities for personal amusement or selfish interests. Such theft is very common on Facebook where many individuals give out too much information in their profiles. There are many viruses and Trojans that are downloadable onto a hard drive that immediately initiate identity theft actions.

There are many sexual predators online seeking out vulnerable kids to exploit. These predators usually disguise themselves in online chat rooms that kids frequent and initiate connections to lure them. Many of these rooms allow people to remain anonymous by using fake names thus making it easy for immoral characters to prey on unsuspecting victims.

Cyber bullying occurs where an individual is continually victimized online in social media sites. It has similar psychological effects to traditional forms of bullying the difference being the medium used to carry it out. Many cases go unreported and victims suffer in silence until they finally cave in to pressure and act out, sometimes with fatal consequences.

It is not physically and socially healthy for kids to spend too much time online. More and more youngsters prefer to spend their time surfing or chatting on social media sites. Parents need to discourage this attitude and push for more one on one interaction with people.




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