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Protecting Your Kid With Parental Control Software |
| Date Added: June 19, 2010 05:31:32 AM |
| Author: miokayla99 |
| Category: Shopping |
| Parental control software is a type of software program for your home computers that controls computer use, filters the Internet content, and allows parents to secure a safe overall online experience for their family members. When choosing parental control software for your family, find important features it should have. First of all, the tool should be easy to install and use. Second, the tool should be protected with a password and impossible for knowledgeable kids and teenagers to turn it off. It should block or filter anything that a parent considers inappropriate for a kid. Some software tools include profanity masking - even in e-mails and instant messages - a proxy monitor to keep your kid from browsing a proxy site to avoid the parental controls, and social networking controls to block or control your child's behavior on the most visited sites, such as Facebook and MySpace. There are also software programs that provide chat monitoring. This feature is great for blocking inappropriate words and reporting live conversations for you to know who your kid is talking to and what they are discussing when you are unable to control. Other features which parents may regard as valuable include time restricting that allows you to establish a schedule for your child's Web usage to certain times of the day and reporting features that will give you a detailed rundown of all of the Web activities on your computer. Some of the programs also have pre-set profiles grounded on age specially designed to create a very user-friendly set-up for parents who are not as computer-literate as they would like to be when it comes to protecting their kids from some of the dangers arising out of surfing on the Web. Some software tools allow parents to use the package on a network containing up to three home computers. This is a great feature to search for, if you have a few computers at home or if your child has their own personal computer. Though the software tools have a lot in common and are aimed to allow parents to monitor computer usage and filter the Web content, they differ in features that may make one or another more appropriate for your family or situation. For example, some parental controls really work well with social networking sites while some do not, so if your kid has a profile on any of these sites, you will want to pick out a program that has those features. Each program has something different to offer, so take the time to read each review carefully to decide which program is right for you. |
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