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Tips for Setting up Your Home for Remote Work and Learning
Tips for Spotting and Stopping Misinformation on COVID-19
6 Tips to Protect Your Family on Video Chat Apps
5 Ways to Handle Bullying Online
Tips for Setting New Screen Time Rules
Safety Tips for Kids Gaming Online
Tips for Safe and Healthy Social Media Use
Tips for Protecting Your Privacy Online
We recommend the following sites as a guide for you on your internet journey!
- A Parent’s Guide to Media Literacy by NAMLE and Trend Micro 2022 Update!
Tip sheets on how to deal with fake news, scams, and a lot more! - ConnectSafety
Helpful guide in teaching safe use of technology, privacy, and security - Center on Media & Child Health
Tips on healthy media use based on medical researches conducted by Harvard Medical, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Harvard School of Public Health - Net Family News
A blog and newsletter on parenting, youth tech, and digital safety - Internet Safety for KIds & Families (ISKF)
A blog on all things online safety, media literacy, and digital citizenship
Safety measures in searching online
Enable safe search mode (Requires a logged in account to set preferences)
For iOS – Secure devices, set privacy restrictions and parental controls
- Use parental controls on your child’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
- Prevent in-app purchases from App Store
- Download Mobicip for advanced internet filtering and safe browsing (also available in Android)
For Android – Secure devices, set privacy, restrictions and parental controls
- Manage device, apps, & screen time
- Set up parental controls on Google Play
- Purchase approvals on Google Play
Media Ratings
Social Media Security
- Parent Guide to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Roblox, Cyberbullying, etc.
- Tips for Strong, Secure Passwords & Other Authentication Tools
- Share photos with your phone wisely
- Setting tag alerts in Facebook
- Setting tag alerts in Instagram
- How to protect your Tweets
- Enable two-factor authentication on Twitter
For Students
- Percentage of College Admissions Officers Who Visit Applicants’ Social Networking Pages Continues to Grow — But Most Students Shrug (Kaplan Test Prep Survey, November 2014)
- They Loved Your G.P.A., Then They Saw Your Tweets (New York Times, November 2013)
- Social Networking Sites and College Admissions – How to Stand Out from the Competition in a Good Way
- 10 Ways to Manage Your Social Media Footprint (Kaplan Test Prep)
- In College Admissions, Social Media Can Be a Double-Edged Sword (New York Times, November 2013)
- Social Media Dos and Don’ts for Student-Athletes (Athletic Business, October 2013)
- 45 Best Blogging Sites for Kids (Kids Lean to Blog)
- Blogging for Teens – A Guide for Parents (Fabulous Blogging)
- 5 Easy Ways to Find Our Who’s Searching for You Online (MakeUseOf.com, December 2019)
- Are you talking about me? How to get alerted when your name is used online (ZDNet.com, March 2017)
- How to create a Google Alert | YouTube Video
- Set-up email under parent account, for kids under 13 (FlagrantDisregard.com, February 2007)
- Chat/Text Abbreviations (Cyberbullying.org, August 2014)
- Trend Micro Free Tools
Internet Safety Blog
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Remember to Blink: Managing Increased Screen Time During a Pandemic
By Lynette Owens This may not surprise you, but since the beginning of the COVID-19 stay-in periods, screen time in homes around the globe is at an all-time high. Internet use in the U.S. is now up 70% in recent studies. That includes more hours on...
During a Pandemic, Civility Needs Strengthening, Too
by Lynette Owens While we all strive to stay healthy and positive during this pandemic, let’s not kid ourselves: COVID-19 has us all on edge. We’re worried about our physical health and that of our loved ones and we’re struggling to grasp what...
Protecting Your Family on Video Chat Apps
By Lynette Owens As many of us continue to stay at home due to the current pandemic, one thing is abundantly clear: Video communication is our present and our future. Humans are social creatures by nature. We thrive on conversations, shared...
3 Ways to Help Your Family Online As You #StayAtHome
The spread of COVID-19 may have limited our ability to do many things, but it hasn’t hampered our mission to help parents and kids use technology in safe, responsible and successful ways. As we all do our part to keep our families and others safe...
Healthy Family Habits to Fight COVID-19 Harms Online and Off
by Lynette Owens As of today, more than 185K global cases of COVID-19 have been documented, according to Johns Hopkins University. Travel has been restricted in many countries, restaurants, bars, and schools have shuttered their doors and many...
Facebook Now Shows Us What We’re Doing Off-Facebook
By Lynette Owens On the heels of Data Privacy Day last week, Facebook introduced the “Off-Facebook Activity” tool, which shows you all of the businesses and apps that give information about you to Facebook. This information seems to be collected...
Taking a Stand Against the Reality of Deepfakes
by Lynette Owens What percent of the content on the internet do you believe is true? While there is certainly lots of reliable information online, it’s getting increasingly difficult to tell the genuine from the rumor-mill, the real from the fake...
Staying safe online: should you “friend” your kids on social media?
It’s been a busy time for our Internet Safety for Kids & Families (ISKF) team. Our outreach efforts at schools are gathering some great momentum, with our volunteers doing close to 80 events for parents and kids in the US over the past 3 months...
What’s Your Story? 2020: Behind the Scenes of our Video Contest
Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids & Families (ISKF) initiative began life 11 years ago. Internet use was pretty different back then, and our message was much simpler: let’s help protect kids from strangers and adult content online. Since...
Internet Safety for Kids & Families
