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Facebook And Child Safety

Memory Spy Staff — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:47:45 +0000

What Is The Problem?
Kids are giving away too much information that can be easily traced to their home address or school. Students will take a picture with their cell phone and post online. Now, the predator knows where the child lives and what they look like. In some cases, that is all they need to make contact.

Who Is Most At Risk?
The kids that tell their online friend that they hate their parents, drink, smoke, use drugs or have had sex are the easier targets. These kids are less likely to talk to their parents. Latch key kids are also more vulnerable because they would be home alone if a predator took the chance to go directly to their house. Predators can track a parent’s cell phone through global positioning and know if a parent is at home, near or far away. If they have the phone number, they can learn this information. Of course, the child had no idea of the danger in giving out the parent’s cell number. Girls who lie about being older than they are also making themselves vulnerable.

The Dangers Are Real.
Children feel safe in their homes and think nothing can happen. Middle school and high school students need to be closely monitored. This age group can not imagine anything bad happening to them. There is software available now that can assist parents in protecting their children..

We realize that no matter how vigilant you are you can not monitor your child at all times. Thanks to MemorySpy.com and its release of Memory Spy PC monitoring software you will always be informed about your child’s internet activity. Protect your children today!

Social Networking Dangers

Memory Spy Staff — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:39:06 +0000

What makes the social-networking sites more dangerous than regular Web pages?
It’s one-stop shopping. You have the profile and instant messaging right there. These networking sites are a perfect predator’s playground. Predators don’t have to go to chat rooms, they can troll through and look for pretty faces that they like and get all the information they want. The police we work with tell us that when a predator starts grooming a child, he looks for vulnerability, and with a diary or blog right there, he’s already gotten past the first stage.

Is there any way to know how big a problem this is?
No, because the kids aren’t telling. Sometimes they don’t even tell mom and dad that they have a space [online]. Maybe they’re underage, and if they tell, guess what mom and dad will do? Take away the page. We’ve done surveys of kids ages 12-15 and asked them if they had ever been sexually harassed online, and most of them said they had been, but they never tell their parents. [According to Highlights of the Youth Internet Safety Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, "One in five children, 10 to 17 years old, receive unwanted sexual solicitations online."]

A mother whose 14-year-old daughter disappeared last month told a local paper recently that she had no idea that her daughter had a MySpace profile and that it was full of risqué language. Is that common?
Most parents don’t know anything about MySpace or the other sites, and if they do, they think it’s harmless. The truth of the matter is that a lot of parents are intimidated by their kids because their kids are so much more tech-savvy than they are. And they’re busy and they don’t have time to learn about this, so they say, “OK, if you’re having fun, go ahead.”

Keep Child Predators Away

Memory Spy Staff — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:15:28 +0000

Christina Long’s life was full of promise. The popular 13-year-old from Connecticut was an honor student and cheerleader. But it seems Christina had a troubling, secretive side. She was meeting strangers over the Internet.

Last May, Christina was strangled to death, and police believe she met her killer online.

Parents have reason for alarm. In a 2008 study, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Justice Department said that one of every five young people ages 10 to 17 surveyed said they had received a sexual solicitation over the Internet in the previous year.

To be sure, shady characters hang out in the virtual playgrounds of cyberspace, just as they do in the physical world. Online predators loiter in chat rooms, dispatch pornographic spam and might try to lure youngsters to in-person meetings.

Child Internet Safety Online

Memory Spy Staff — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:16:41 +0000

Is Your Child Being Stalked By An Online Predator?

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 1 in 5 children have received unwanted sexual solicitations while online – yet only 1 out of that group have told a parent. We, at Memory Spy, find that to be a terrifying statistic. We provide a product that will allow you, the parent, to monitor ALL of your child’s online activities. This empowers parents to make the proper decisions needed to protect their children.

We realize that no matter how vigilant you are, you may not be able to watch everything your child is doing on the computer. With this program there is no need worry, you will be able to keep an eye on your child at all times.

With Memory Spy you can see every website your child visits. Many children have innocently created MySpace accounts, but are unaware that there may be Internet predators using MySpace as a tool to find victims.

Memory Spy is a state of the art product that allows you to log every keystroke, capture user names, passwords, e-mails, chats, instant message conversations and have them e-mailed to you immediately.

Now you can track everything your child is doing while on the computer - Protect your child today.

Catch An Internet Predator

Memory Spy Staff — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:00:33 +0000

Internet Predators
Of all the places your child goes to on the Internet, chat rooms are the most difficult sites for you as a parent to monitor. These locations permit the kind of person you would usually avoid in person to easily and readily approach your children.

See what happens in this scenario:

Robert, a middle school student, enters a chat room for young teenagers and gets into the flow of conversation. He tells how old he is and where he goes to school. He gets a response from someone who appears to be a thirteen-year-old girl named Jennifer. Her messages come with misspelled words and typing mistakes, and she sounds like a teenager, but in reality she is a forty-two-year-old man who is looking for young teenage boys to take advantage of. This pedophile may select Robert out of the group and invite him to enter a private room.

Pretending to be Jennifer, the pedophile might talk to Robert over several nights or weeks, becoming friendlier and friendlier and perhaps easing the conversation into sexual topics. Sooner or later, in most cases like this, Jennifer may ask where Robert lives and perhaps his phone number. Worse yet, this pedophile may try to set up a meeting with Robert.

We realize that no matter how vigilant you are you can not monitor your child at all times. Thanks to MemorySpy.com and its release of MemorSpy PC monitoring software you will always be informed about your child’s internet activity. Protect your child today!