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Keep your kids and teens SAFE ONLINE!!!

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Sharing with you some tips on how you can keep your kids and teens safe online... According to statistics, 86% of 7-11 year olds and 96% of 11-19 year olds are communicating online. To help make sure that your kids are safe in the online world, information and knowledge is key. Here are the top 10 tips taken from a Sophos article.  Discuss them to your kids and explain to them why it is important to abide by these guidelines. 1.  Lock down your Facebook page . Make sure your profile is only shown to your friends – not to friends of friends and certainly not to the public (the whole world)! It’s good to check your privacy settings regularly, too, because FV often updates them. 2.  On Friend requests: If you don’t know the person sending the friend request, do not accept them. 3.  If a thing is private to you, don’t share it on any social media form! Don’t post anything anywhere on the internet if you don’t want the world to ...