As we know, Children spend more and more time daily on using internet and this can bring concerns for their parents.because excess in use of internet can affect their natural and common activities and behavior such as socializing. For example isolation can be a danger for some young computer users.

In this part I point out some real risks to children in using internet. One is that the personal information that children use to create their member-profiles can be misused in a variety of ways including marketing directed at children and by child predators. The second risk would be the pornography sites which are found while surfing the web by mistyping addresses and also misleading names to websites and links from other sites. This is a serious area of concerns for many parents.

In addition to pornography, there are other inappropriate sites like those that promote racism or misinformation on important health issues such as birth control and so on.

Other dangers to children that are common nowadays and day-in, day –out we see and hear so many news about crimes happened in these areas are cyber-bullying, online solicitation, ubiquitous access that the last one is about other devices like iPods and iTunes that have access to the internet and have the same or even more risk than computers, namely desk – and lap-top computers .I have mentioned more about these devices in previous posts.

As a result, I think parents should keep control over their children in using computers and internet to prevent or reduce in possible crimes that could happen to them. As a matter of fact, they can advise them to follow some rules that can keep them safe regarding to mentioned crimes. Simply some of these helpful advices are as below:

• -         Never get together with someone who they meet online
• -         Don’t share personal information
• -         Talk to their parents if frightened

Source: www.independent.ie