Thursday, December 14, 2006

Blogs - Friend or Foe?

If you lived in a neighborhood where there was a 1 in 10 chance that you child would be solicited for sex, what would you do?

If you lived in a neighborhood where there was a 1 in 3 chance that you would be a victim of a crime, what would you do?

Here is a link to some Internet Pornography Statistics that should not be ignored when deciding whether or not you would like your child to post information online.
http://www.familysafemedia.com/pornography_statistics.html

Did you know that 27% of children polled would freely give out their home address to a stranger on the Internet?

Food for thought my friends. Before we get on this bandwagon, we need to get both the positives and the negatives then decide if posting information is worth the risk (from a legal standpoint in the school system as well as from a safety standpoint with relation to students)

Captain Zal