Product Description

Learn the 14 ways in which you can help make the Internet a safer place for you and your family. You teach your children to look both ways before crossing the street. You tell them not to talk to strangers. But do you really know how to teach them to safely use the Internet? In this book, Linda Criddle, a leading child safety expert, offers a practical education about what is safe, what is not, and how taking a few precautions can help your children avoid putting themselves at risk. Discover what the risks are today and common ways in which people inadvertently expose themselves and accidentally reveal information. Learn how to be alert, avoid instant messaging and e-mail dangers, blog and play games safely, and avoid harassment and bullying.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #752786 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780735623477
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Publisher
Key Book Benefits:

- Delivers critical safety information that is simple for anyone in your family to follow - Covers the landscape of today’s Internet risks, including how to avoid instant messaging and e-mail dangers, approach blogging and online game-play safely, and avoid harassment and bullying - Authored by a leading child safety expert familiar with emerging risks to children on the Internet

About the Author
Linda Criddle is a mother of four, the Senior Product Manager for Child Safety in Microsoft’s MSN Safety & Security Group, and an internationally recognized speaker on child safety. Her responsibilities include driving the child safety initiative strategy for MSN, participating in Microsoft-wide child safety planning, identifying emerging risks to children on the Internet, and building a child safety compliance program. Linda lectures and advises on Internet child safety risks internationally on behalf of Microsoft and holds several Internet safety patents. Prior to her work at Microsoft, Linda worked with abused women and children’s groups in Europe and was an investigative journalist.

Customer Reviews

Everybody should have this book
I was impressed by this common-sense approach to online safety. Through a lot of the problems out there involve kids and teens, the authors really drive home the point that everybody is at some risk and everybody can be safer if they use their heads. Then the book tells you how to do just that. A must for parents or anybody who uses the internet.

Must have book for anyone with a PC at home
This book offers a no-nonsense, simple to follow and understand, approach to protecting your family online. I have kids that loves browsing, playing games and searching for content online and I am always worried that they might expose themselves to risks and harm. The book helped me understand how to protect them without having to bar them from using online services... a must have for anyone who has a PC at home.

A vital safety check-up for the whole family
Linda Criddle has written the definitive parents' guide to Internet safety. As the executive at Microsoft who is responsible for idenitfying emerging online risks to children, she looks at the situation through the eyes of an expert and a parent--and then re-examines the landscape from the perspective of a potential predator, exposing hidden vulnerabilities that put us at risk for exploitation.

Criddle's book is comprehensive and specific. She alerts us to the ways that we are exposing our personal information to the general public, including instances in which parents inadvertently give away identifying information about their children. She is knowledgeable about the way predators use the Internet to identify potential victims and groom them, keeping in mind that online as in "real life" a predator is most likely to be someone known to a child.

"Look Both Ways" is almost overwhelming in its comprehensive scope. The book covers the latest developments in blogging, instant messaging, and online dating safety, as well as fraud scenarios including financial scams and phishing. Linda Criddle has written an essential guide that will help families develop skills and sensible limits that will ensure that parents and kids have positive Internet experiences. This book is an eye-opener and a vital addition to every parent's library.