General discussion

Kids..?

mar 18 nov 2008 23:40:41 UTC da phantazm

plasticmadness: "Regarding kids browsing... it's so complicated!!"

I agree, this is not a simple issue. But at least, let us not simplify it too much either.

First of all, let us not just say "kids", as this is not a single group.
Consider the teenager category: 13-19. If you're 19 you will most times be 'grown up', old enough for a lot of things. And obviously, if you are 13 you're most times not old enough, too young and still a "kid". Below 13 we still have a problem. A 12 year old is not a grown up person, not a teenager, but not a child either. Furthermore, children are also more then one singular category.

So, we need to be more specific. WOT has many users, and also many different users.
And I really don't think one solution fits all...

BobJam: "Yes, YoKenny, I certainly agree with the notion of responsible parenting.

"I don't know what's wrong with these kids these days . . . I don't know what this world is coming to."

Our parents said that when we wanted to see Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show, and now we're saying it (at least I am anyway). Guess it's a perpetual refrain for every generation."

You're right: it's an old problem! Does this complaint seem familiar? "Today's young people love luxury. They have bad manners, scorn authority, have no respect for their elders and gossip when they should be working. Young people don't stand up any more when older people enter the room. They contradict their parents, swagger around in society, gobble up all the sweets on the table, cross their legs and tyrannize their teachers." - How old is that quote, and who said it? Sokrates, (470-399 BC). So, this problem is not new at all, probably been around since the dawn of time. But we still need to deal with it...

Okay, not all things remain the same. And the internet is a very good
(and also very recent) example of this. Usually kids have a lot of curiousity,
and grown ups a lot of experience. But it's not that simple on the net:
Many kids knows more about computers and internet than their parents. So,
here we can find the combination of curiousity and experience.
And yet it's still not that simple, cause it's more technical experience:
knowing 'how to do it' is not the same as knowing 'should I do it'.
You still need to know what it means in the long run, or in a greater context.
You still don't know what you don't know...

General discussion

Re: Kids

mer 19 nov 2008 14:36:59 UTC da Sami

There was some discussion about this on this poll.

There is no technical solution

gio 20 nov 2008 20:38:18 UTC da YoKenny

Adult supervision was the highest

"There is no technical solution for a management problem."

Some of the kids surf safer

dom 28 dic 2008 03:10:46 UTC da PMPAM

Some of the kids surf safer in the web browsers and they have to install WOT and they have to increase the child protection against adult sites and they have to have it own child safety ratings.

They are smart enough to

dom 28 dic 2008 21:41:36 UTC da YoKenny

They are smart enough to protect themselves from their parent's indiscretions.

I have a folder in my

gio 01 gen 2009 07:19:35 UTC da cconniejean

I have a folder in my bookmarks just for my granddaughter. These are all pre-approved sites that I have researched as child safe. I make a point to also visit the site and click around. Don't want any bad redirects. I use WOT for her, I never let her on the computer unsupervised, and tell her to keep her eye on the WOT rating for child safety. I have my setting set to block, also to block sites with no ratings yet for child safety. I see this is not without error.

I had a GooglePage reported on our forum tonight for adult porn. Checked the rating for this GooglePage here at WOT. I was greatly surprised, all rating were very good, and also rated as child safe. So...the best security does fall back to adult supervision. I think my best protection with my granddaughter is the fact that I precheck and recheck her sites.

The address

sab 03 gen 2009 05:08:05 UTC da wehaveitall

I'm sorry to here about this mistake. It is asked you report ratings such as these to http://www.mywot.com/en/support/feedback/abuse
Also, you can leave the address here so that others can rate it.

AND the best part-you can rate it without visiting it.
To do this, toward the top of this page, in the search box under "Check the reputation of your favorite site" enter the address of the website. Then, in the scorecard, just above the specifics of the rating, showing the rating in all four categories, click edit my rating.

Then, rate the website as you please
WOT ROCKS!

Well I am 14

gio 01 gen 2009 08:08:55 UTC da Akemi

My views on this matter is that parents or grandparents are the ones who rear us. If they think they raised us up properly then they should not worry about us. However they should check up on us from time to time to make sure we don't cross the line.
I am the most tech savvy person in my house. I also happen to be very mature and have downloaded WOT on ever single computer. I have a younger brother and unlike my mother I keep my eye on him because 3 of the sites he is regularly on have been found to be unsafe sites.
To be blunt if you trust your kid great if you don't why are you not trusting them?

Mine is only seven. If mine

gio 01 gen 2009 12:31:36 UTC da cconniejean

Mine is only seven. If mine grows up as intelligent and wise as you Akemi, I shall be very happy.

Im 13

sab 03 gen 2009 06:29:53 UTC da wehaveitall

I just turned 13, and got WOT on all three computers when I was 11.

Why? Because. our family does not have a good record of staying safe, and soon after trying it, I realized the potential of WOT.

It began when I downloaded smiley central (a horrible spyware program) just before I got WOT, since it looked fun to have. It advertises that it lets you add smileys to your emails (which it does), but they failed to mention that it would steal my passwords, and inflict problems on my computer. I lost the password to my website, and I told multiple friends about it, before I found out its dangers, putting them at risk as well. Luckily, everything was later resolved.

And I'm not alone.
My mom's record number of viruses is 3 in six months, and my dad is about 2 in six months.

That's when I got WOT.

WOT, literately changed my life. Had I not downloaded it, I guarantee I would have gotten at least 4 additional viruses since downloading WOT, due to the fact that there were four websites I was looking at downloading from, some of which just from reading their metatags, and not even visiting the website.

But, after using WOT for a while, I slowly started to get a feel for staying safe online. I slowly began to realize what made a website unsafe. And, with WOT's database continually updating with new websites, I didn't have to feel insecure online anymore.

And WOT has only gotten better. I soon found out how much say the users really had. In addition to being able to rate websites, the makers of WOT: Against Intuition Inc. loves to hear your feedback. And, unlike many companies, they listen to it.

In version 1, I suggested the addition of being able to add comments about websites. Although I may have not been the very first to suggest it, sure enough, this suggestion was soon implemented, and to this day is still used.

And, with comments, the users get a bigger say. Because of it, in addition to being able to find the safety of a website, I can find which products and services are worth my money or time, and which aren't.

Since I got WOT in June 2007, I've gotten ONE virus, which, sure enough, was from an unrated website.

I am, and always will be, a loyal member of the WOT community, and user of WOT.

WOT ROCKS!

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