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Posted by: Nicolette Mayers on: May 6, 2009
Teens Spend 31 Hours A Week Online
Posted by: Nicolette Mayers on: May 6, 2009
According to some research I found a high majority of time our teens are spend chatting with friends on MSN or browsing around the major social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook. Of course there is also lots of time getting lost in the entertainment abyss that is YouTube.
Here were a couple of other things that stood out to me:
- Just over an hour is devoted to looking up cosmetic surgery procedures
- An hour and a half is spent on family planning and pregnancy websites
- One hour 35 minutes is spent investigating diets and weight loss.
- One in four teenagers of the 1,000 polled said they regularly spoke to strangers online but thought it harmless.
- One in three admitted trying to hide what they were looking at if a parent entered the room.
- But children also use the Internet to help them with homework, with at least three hours a week spent searching for such information.
Awful? Most of the parents are blaming the internet, but in reality its parents’ fault. If you want perfect or semi good children, play with them, grow with them, and talk to them, control their Internet time. Mine would spend every minute on the Internet if I didn’t limit them. Hopefully, my best friend recommended me to try parental control software called Ez Internet Timer. It does the trick perfectly. It can stop all on-line activity and block Internet browsers, e-mails, ftps or messengers separately. I often turn off MSN, ISQ and other chat programs so that my kids don’t spend all day on them. I’ll do my best to control over my son’s on-line activity.
Limit Time Spent Online
Posted by: Nicolette Mayers on: March 5, 2009
No doubt that the Internet and interactive video game can be excellent sources of education and entertainment for kids. But the amount of time kids spend online is a source of frustration for many parents. Initially, parents welcomed the Internet into their homes, believing they were opening up an exciting new world of educational opportunities for their children. However, many parents soon realized that, instead of using the Internet for homework or research, their kids were spending hours instant messaging with friends, playing online games, or talking to strangers in chat rooms.
Maintaining a healthy balance between entertainment media and other activities in their children’s lives has always been a challenge for parents. The Internet has made this challenge even more difficult. Please note that the American Academy of Pediatrics’s recommendation that parents limit screen time to no more than two hours per day includes Internet, television, videos/DVDs, and video games. So if you are concerned your child may be spending too much time on the Internet or playing games, Ez Internet Timer will offer a solution.
Ez Internet Timer is an easy-to-use internet filtering software that provides you control, schedule and filter Internet activity on your or your children PC. The program will allow you to scheduler the periods of time when kids or employees will have access to the Internet connection on your computer. Ez Internet Timer is also capable of blocking various Internet based applications like web browsers, chat clients so you can be sure everyone does exactly what he/she says while working on your PC.
You can download a no-cost evaluation version of the Ez Internet Timer from www.internettimer.net and give it a test drive. Please feel free to post your comments regarding this parental control tool.
Increase employee productivity
Posted by: Nicolette Mayers on: February 3, 2009
Believe it or not, it’s easy to increase employee productivity just by having the right software installed on the computers your employees use. If you think you don’t need to read any further since you’ve already installed spreadsheet and word processing software then hold on. Those aren’t the types of software I’m going to talk about. Instead we are going to tell you about software you may not have considered.
1. Content blocking software.
Content blocking software is just that. Its purpose is to block employees from accessing certain types of web sites, instant messaging programs, games, Spyware and more while they’re at work (we recommend System Gate, Ez Internet Timer or Ez Parental Control). With this type of software, you as the system administrator get to decide the type of content you want blocked. That can include sites that promote pornography, online gambling, investing, betting, banking and even online shopping! You probably trust that your employees are doing the work they’re supposed to be doing and you’re probably right. But believe it or not, most employees do use company computers for personal purposes while on the clock. Even if each employee spends just 10 minutes per day conducting personal business on your computers, when you have 12 employees that amounts to 2 full hours of lost productivity every single day! How much longer can you afford to let that continue?
2. Timer software.
Timer software puts the computers at your place of business on timers. When timer software is installed, you’re be able to custom create operating schedules for each computer. Say for example you want one of your computers to run on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:00 am until 1:00 pm. With a few clicks of the mouse, you’re done programming the timer software! When employees know that they’re required to complete their computer work within specific time frames otherwise the computer will automatically shutdown, guess what? They’re going to make sure they get that work done! If this sounds a bit mean, it’s not really. Timer software usually includes a feature that lets the computer countdown the time as it gets closer to the pre-programmed log off time.
3. Monitoring software.
When you have monitoring software installed, you can know exactly where your employees are going every time they access the Internet while at work. This type of software provides you with reports that include information such as the name of every web site your employees visit, how much time they spend at each site, whether they download any files and if so, the size of the download, and more. Again, while this might seem like an invasion of their privacy, it isn’t. Most small businesses now include a policy on Internet usage as part of their company policy. Once employees realize you have the capability to keep tabs on their Internet whereabouts, they’ll be less inclined to participate in those activities that are against company policy – especially when doing so may have serious repercussions! So there you have it: Three simple ways software can instantly increase productivity at your place of business!
Stop Your Child’s Internet Addiction
Posted by: Nicolette Mayers on: February 1, 2009
While the Internet is an incredibly useful tool and can help you get a lot done, wasting time on it seems to be all too easy. Lots of kids have problems with spending too much time on the Internet, to the dismay of some parents. Internet addiction has been described as being just as powerful as a drug addiction, and while your child may not be to that point, their excessive Internet usage could lead to more serious problems down the road.
Steps.
• Talk with your child about his excessive Internet usage. Find out if there are any specific reasons that he spends so much time on the Internet (computer). Sometimes the Internet is as an escape from reality.
• Move the computer to an open area if it’s not already in one. Sometimes taking it out of the child’s bedroom is sufficient to reduce their Internet usage, and it makes it easier to monitor their usage.
• Tell your child that he/she has an addiction that needs to be resolved. Be firm but kind. Find out how bad your child’s addiction is, and what exactly your child is addicted to. Does your child spend most of his/her Internet time playing games, chatting online, or just browsing the Web?
• Set a time limit on the amount of time your child can spend on the Internet each day.
- First, tell your child his time limit and see if he’s able to stick to the limit himself.
- If he can’t control his time on the Internet on his own (which, if his addiction is serious, will likely be the case), start using a timer. Once the timer goes off, your child has to get off the Internet and computer.
- Parents often find it difficult to enforce time limits because their kids will put up a fight. Parents of younger children, in particular, like getting stuff done when their kids are parked in front of the screen. If you don’t have the discipline to follow through, consider buying a software-based computer timer that will consistently enforce time limits, such as Ez Internet Timer. With this program, parents must take explicit action to add time rather than remove or restrict it.
- Set a time limit on the amount of time for yourself in oder to set a good example. You need to be a good role model and also limit your screen time to no more than two hours per day. If your kids see you following your own rules, then they will be more likely to follow.
• Be aware of what your child is doing on the computer. Check the Internet browser’s history to see what websites she’s visiting, or install parental control software to monitor the programs that she uses.
• Replace the time that your child would normally spend on the Internet with other activities. Play board games with her, take her to the library, get her together with friends to play sports, etc. Addictions are hard to break, and it’s even harder when your child has nothing to do.
• Assign your child extra chores or take away other privileges if she continues to overuse the Internet.
• Warn your child that if he cannot control his time on the computer, you will have to take it away completely.
• Follow through on your warning, and take the computer away. If your child has her own computer, remove the power cord, and put it somewhere where your child will not be able to get at it without your knowing. If you have more than one computer, you may have to monitor them to make sure that your child is not secretly using them. It’s better to install a parental control, which will record any activity on the computer.
But don’t let your child replace all of his computer time by watching TV or playing video games? Addictions to these types of entertainment can be formed, too. Your child might react with anger when you take steps to break her addiction – be prepared to deal with temper tantrums.
Web Blocking Solutions For Your Small Business
Posted by: Nicolette Mayers on: February 1, 2009
If you operate a small business and you have employees, it may be time to consider content blocking software. Content blocking software can increase your employees’ output and even more importantly, it can keep your business out of legal trouble.
Let’s face it. No matter how valuable your employees are, they are only human. And that means that from time to time, they likely will take time off from their duties to wander around the Internet. These jaunts might be perfectly innocent trips, like quickly visiting a stock site to check the status of their favorite stocks or a sports site to learn the scores of their favorite sports teams.
But unless you are right there standing over your employees’ shoulders every single minute of every single work day, you don’t really have any way of knowing whether they are wandering to sites they shouldn’t be visiting. And that’s exactly why your small business computers need web blocking software. There are lots of web blocking software available on the market, for example, Ez Internet Timer. You can download a no-cost evaluation version of the Ez Internet Timer from www.internettimer.net and give it a test drive.
With web blocking software you can keep your employees from participating in adult-themed chat rooms and from gambling in online poker rooms. You can keep them from accessing and viewing images of scantily-clad men and women and from emailing jokes that might offend other employees. You can keep them off web sites that teach how to make bombs with items they can find right around your office and from reading the rantings of fanatical groups. And you can also keep them from shopping at their favorite online stores and from planning their next vacation!
Besides keeping your employees from visiting sites where they don’t belong during business hours, web blocking software can also make messaging software, game software, Spyware and other undesirable programs inaccessible while your employees are at work.
Perhaps you have not pursued web blocking software because you think that installing it on your small business computers is being over-reactive. You might even think doing so is an infringement on your employees’ right to privacy, or that such blocking software is expensive. If so, it’s time to change your way of thinking.
First of all, the issue of whether or not to install web blocking software on work computers is not new. In fact many businesses, large and small, now include a policy on Internet usage as part of their overall company policy. When employees are made to read and consent to this policy as a condition of their employment, it’s hard for them to dispute what’s considered acceptable and what’s not. For these business owners, web blocking software acts as a way to enforce company policy.
Secondly, you pay your employees a salary and in exchange for their pay, they agreed to perform certain job duties. Unless you’re a very open-minded boss, it’s doubtful that any of those job duties involved using the Internet for personal reasons; further justification for installing content blocking software. If you need more convincing, then there’s always the simple explanation: Installing web blocking software is just the responsible thing to do!
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