KidZui
November 16th, 2008 by ComputerBob
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 8 1/2 years since I first posted Teach Kids Web Safety, to draw attention to the problem of children giving out a dangerous amount of personal information to strangers over the Internet.
I don’t have any statistics to back me up, but I suspect that with today’s children being even more comfortable “on the net” than in the past, it’s still a pretty serious problem.
But whether or not children are giving out personal information on the Internet, we all know that there’s an awful lot of inappropriate junk out there, and any child who uses a search engine or types a URL incorrectly can access that junk — often by accident.
In the past, most efforts to protect children involved installing software that allowed them to surf the entire worldwide web, while the software tried to filter out the bad stuff before it reached them — often without much success.
KidZui takes a different approach. Instead of allowing children to surf the entire worldwide web, it allows them to see only specific things that have been pre-approved. According to the KidZui site, that adds up to “Over a million kid-friendly games, websites, pictures, and YouTube videos reviewed by parents like you.”
That sounds like a really good idea to me.
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