Thursday 22 August 2013

Making YouTube safe for your kids

Recent research has indicated that kids aged six to nine years old
spend an average of 4.2 hours per week using social networks. If you
have done your home work right, you will be rest assure that contents
available to your kids are safe, reliable and trust worthy. If not,
then you do have a problem, but no need to worry. Let look at how you
can make YouTube more safer for your kids.


YouTube is arguably one of the biggest video sharing platform online.
Apart from entertainment, YouTube can also be use as a learning medium
for kids.

Although YouTube has designed a first set of defense in a form of a
filter located at the bottom of the window, no filter is 100%
accurate.
For instance, some comments can be harmful, abusive and not suitable for kids.
Also some advert can equally be persuasive, erotic and not suitable for kids.

What you should do:-

WATCH AND CREATE PLAYLIST.

Watching and creating playlist is one of the best way of making
YouTube safe for your kids. Some parent use Kideoplayer
(kideoplayer.com), kideoplayer is very easy to navigate and much
attractive, and you can be rest assure that contents available to your
kids are safe and reliable.

You can installed Porn and Violence filter and parental control software.
Some example of parental software which are free includes:
Window Live family - part of window live essential package.
Norton online family.
AVG family safety.
PGsurfer.
K9 web protection, among others.

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