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The parents should pay more attention to children's online activities. Because, according to research from Symantec, Internet security firm, 96% of children in Indonesia had a bad experience with a negative content on the internet.
Negative item in purpose was none other than the content from pornography, violence, gambling sites, until the other adult content that is not time for access by children. According Effendy Ibrahim, Internet Safety Advocate & Cosumer Bussines Lead for Symantec Asia.
"Three out of ten parents are not aware of the content consumed by their children while online," Ibrahim said in a presentation Norton Family Online Report 2010 at Hotel Grand Hyatt, Jakarta, Thursday (01/07/2010).
Effendy said, this report is not to scare parents, but rather intended to warn parents to better communicate with their baby while consuming Internet content.
Moreover, at this time the average child spends approximately 64 hours online each month. Based on Symantec's data, only one in three parents in Indonesia to monitor the content their children consume.
Unfortunately, even parents know of activities that kids do, they still could not communicate very well against children. "Some kids must have thought would be reprimanded when caught accessing adult sites. It should be the parents to open communication with a warm and open," said Effendy.
In the research also shows that the negative content circulating on the internet a little more influence children's emotional side. There is a feeling angry (53%), disappointed (40%), disturbed, shocked, or worried (all 38%) for having seen it.
Role of Parents
So how should parents respond to this attitude? Parents certainly have important roles related to the understanding of the existing content on the internet.
According to Effendy, a combination of technology and how to communicate to children is the most important thing. Preventive approach is far better than the repressive attitude of rebuke.
In addition, parents and the child must also make regulations about the way of surfing with a healthy family. One way to put computers in strategic places in the house and how long it is allowed internet access.
While the technical side, parents can choose the software filters Internet content in the negative. There have been many free software to perform these precautions, such as the Norton Family Online is already available in 25 languages worldwide.
The research itself involved 499 adults aged over 18 years. Of that total, 102 of whom have children aged 10-17 years. Meanwhile, for children who have surveyed 112 people aged 10-17 years, all spent an average of more than one hour per week to access the Internet. Share this post :
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