Internet Safety

I have always wondered how they catch internet thieves and internet criminals. I have always thought that nothing is traceable on the internet. Even though internet crime is new, it is rapidly growing. I think that all kids and adults need to be aware of it and know what to look for in a website to see if it is legal or not. And for many of us it doesn’t just include legality but appropriateness. Are we looking at things that are appropriate? We may just be doing some research for something and we click on a site and it is definitely not what we were thinking the website would be. Hopefully, we, as adults, will know to leave the site right away. However, children do not have that automatic instinct.

I think that internet safety deals a lot with keeping children and youth safe. I think that parents at home need to secure their computers with passwords and blocks, in order to protect their children. Also, I don’t think any child should have a computer in their room for any reason. The computer needs to be in a common area where there are a lot of people. Prophets and apostles have warned us about these dangers over and over again and it is our responsibility to not allow inappropriate internet use in our homes.

I taught my sister about watching out for inappropriate pop-ups and sites and she said that that has happened before when looking up things on search-engines. She said that she is very careful when looking things up. At my house, at home my parents had a password and blocks on our TV and computer and our computer was in the middle of the kitchen. When I was in high school, I didn’t like this at all I thought I could handle the internet by myself. However, now that I am older I can understand the need for this security and how it protects my younger siblings.