I talked to my sister. She is 30 years old and has 3 children ranging from the ages of 6 to 2. I asked her what her concerns about the intranet are and how she keeps herself, her kids, and her husband safe in the use of the intranet. They do a lot of good things to check up on one another. They all know eachothers passwords so that they can check and make sure that everything is good. They have the ability to check on a shared moniter the use of the computer downstairs when they are upstairs. Right now with her kids being as young as they are, she doesn't worry as much as what they willingly get into, but she worries about things that just pop up. They have talked to their kids about if they see something that they don't know what it is or that is bad, they are to just run and get mom and dad.
Somethings that I talked to her about was the risk of people being able to track you on the intranet. She is one that likes to sign up for things a lot trying to find good deals:) I hadn't realized how easy it was for people to find everything out about you, so I gave her the www.netsmartz.org website so she could go there and see how easy it really is.
I felt like this was a positive experience in the both of us talking about things that we knew and had learned. I felt like her kids are still a little young for a lot of the things that were discussed on the site, but it is something she can prepare for when they are older.
Washington, D.C.
14 years ago
sounds like you did a great job here!
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to mention one thing - there is a difference between the term internet and intranet. The Internet is what we are talking about and intranet is typically the local networking within an organization - so a company might have an intranet that only people within the company can access but not people outside.
So you probably usually want to use the term internet.