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National Sex Offender Registry Online

Do you know who lives in your neighborhood? The Family Watchdog web site will help you find out. Chances are there are several sex offenders living in your neighborhood. You just don’t know it. According to the Family Watchdog group, awareness is your best defense. By some standards, I may be an overprotective mom. I walk my kindergartner out to the end of the driveway and wait with him for the school bus. I also make sure to be waiting for him, again in the driveway, when the bus drops him off at the end of the day. He (and … Continue reading →

The NET worth of a sexual predator.

Sexual predators defraud where ever and when ever they can. Like trolls prettied up as princes, they permeate every part of society and pick their targets from where ever they can access them: including the internet. They know no class or gender bounds; they instead pick anyone who falls for their fraudulent and cowardly manipulation. Their net casts over us all, yes, even those members on families.com. Be careful, be warned, be vigilant of whom you share personal information with. I have already had a dubious contact through families.com. It was dealt with, the person banned immediately, and there has … Continue reading →

New Product: PredatorWatch Protects Your Kids From Online Predators

One of the biggest concerns today for parents with kids who spend time on the Internet is the threat of online predators. And there’s a reason for this concern. According to a 2006 survey by Crimes Against Children Research Center, 1 in 7 children between the ages of 10 and 17 are solicited or approached for sex on the internet and 34% where exposed to unwanted sexual material and online harassment increased by 9%. Now parents can rest a bit easier with PredatorWatch, a new program from software company, LiTera. Parents place the software on computers in their home and … Continue reading →

Online National Sex Offender Public Registry

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Yesterday, I reported again on the ongoing series that Dateline NBC is doing about Internet predators (you can read my first report here). Today, I want to point out a Department of Justice Web site that you may want to check out. It is the National Sex Offender Public Registry. You may be surprised to find out who is or is not living near your neighborhood. National Sex Offender Public Registry www.nsopr.gov I know that this isn’t the most fun topic to talk about, but we need to keep raising awareness in others if we are going to help protect … Continue reading →

Download Some New Software

Avast Ye Mateys! Download.com Is a software treasure hunt. Can you tell that I am in pirate mode? That is because we are busy planning my son’s birthday party. He will be six and wants a treasure-hunting pirate theme. It is all about pirates right now, and fortunately, I was able to find some cool pirate-y software programs to occupy his obsession until the big day. Download.com has been providing safe virus and spyware free software for many years. I remember downloading programs from this website many years ago, when it was ultra cool just to have a screen saver … Continue reading →

Computing Review: April 23rd to May 4th

Miss an important Computing Blog? No fear, its all here in this review! Normally when we do our blog reviews here at Families.com, we highlight the past week. Well, I confess that I am a little late, so this review will actually cover almost two weeks! The time has been flying by fast since I have been blogging here in the Computing Blog. It has ben a fun adventure, and I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions! Monday, April 23rd 100 Million iPods Are Sold “At this historic milestone, we want to thank music lovers everywhere for making … Continue reading →

Teaching Teenagers About The Danger Of Internet Predators

It is summer and the average teenager is online 5.5 hours a day, with about 77 million on-line each day. Most are visiting one of the 40,000 chat rooms where according to a 2002 FBI report there is a 100% chance they will encounter a pedophile at some time. What is the danger with chat rooms? The Safe Surfin Foundation says that the danger is that “75% of children and teens report sharing personal information about them and their families to complete strangers in chat rooms.” Child predators use the tidbits of information that they glean from on-line chat rooms … Continue reading →