Internet Filtering or
Web Parental Control! Would you use them to protect your kids?
The internet is wonderful technology. It has indeed broken down
many borders and anyone with access to the internet could
practically get their hands on any types of information and
knowledge anywhere in the world today. Unfortunately, not everything
found on the internet is good and beneficial. Many are controversial
and pose serious threats to any decent societies.
Concerned parents have always been sceptical of the internet.
While they did not dismiss the fact that the internet can provide
information and knowledge at the tip of their fingers, they do worry
about how the internet could affect their kids who are too young and
naïve to differentiate what is right or wrong. Hence, most Malaysian
parents took the easiest way out and opt for not having internet
access at home. I personally view this as a bad decision made by
Malaysian parents. By dismissing the internet from being used at
home, Malaysian parents are actually closing their doors to the
world. In the long run, the whole family would be missing a lot!
Fortunately for Malaysian parents nowadays, there are many good
and reliable internet filtering or parental control software that
could help them filter and block any bad online elements. Internet
filtering and parental control software is a great tool for any
concerned parents in the world for it would allow parents to monitor
or limit what their children can see or do on the internet. The best
thing is that some of this software can be freely downloaded from
the internet!
I personally use Blue Coat K9 Web Protection parental control
software at home and I must say that I am very much satisfied! I
could easily block negative web categories such as pornography,
adult, nudity, drugs and many more simply by clicking on a few
checkboxes on the control panel. I can also manually block any
unwanted websites or web pages simply by adding a few specific URL
keywords into the system. I could even restrict surfing time to my
likings and this would ensure that children and kids would not miss
their much needed sleeping time.
Introducing internet filtering or parental control software at
home would not make any parents that popular with their children in
the first few weeks. Kids would nag and nag, make a lot of nuisances
and noises but they would soon get use to it. Parents would just
have to bear with their grunts and complaints; after all we are
doing this for their own sake anyway.
Parents have to accept the fact that kids nowadays are internet
savvy and we should not deny them access to the internet blatantly
like what most Malaysian parents have done. I would prefer to see
that parents opt for a compromise like what I am doing at the
moment. Let our children develop their learning years on the
internet at home but let them do so with our indirect guidance and
monitoring by using internet filtering or parental control software.
Making sure that the internet would only provides acceptable
information and knowledge to children is now very much possible and
parents may now stop worrying too much about it. Let us make the
internet a wonderful place not only for kids but for the whole
family too!
Now that you knew more about internet filtering or parental
control software, would you use them to protect your kids anytime
soon? Please place your vote down below.
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