computers

[dakegra]

Came upstairs tonight to fined EB and his mates sat watching stuff on YouTube. Not really a problem, but made me wonder what sort of stuff they get up to online.

Maybe I should set him up a user account on XP? Microsoft do a parental control thing which I'm assumign I could put on *his* account but disable on mine...

thoughts? opinions? suggestions?

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[dakegra.livejournal.com]

if it was in an open-plan area, it'd be much easier to keep an eye on - him and his mates tend to disappear off upstairs to play XBox or on the PC, and 9 times out of 10 whenever I go in someone different is on there.

I think EB will be fine, he knows not to randomly install stuff, or click on links to competition banners, but I've found a couple of 'helpful' toolbars appearing on my PC and I suspect it's one of his friends doing stuff. At least if I keep it to his account, it's not going to gnarls up my system as much.

I took the 'family safety' thing off last night, as I didn't like the idea of it keeping track of what we were doing - whilst it said it wasn't monitoring *my* login, I don't trust it. Then realised that if I didn't trust it for me, I shouldn't trust it for anyone else.

I think you're right about the snooping too. BEtter to have a good chat with him about the pros and cons of Stuff Online first, I think.

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I've never ever actually looked at the list of sites that Kate & Holly have looked at & they have no idea that I could do that. I don't see why it would bother them, as they're used to it from school anyway. All the staff are set up the same way too at my school, doesn't bother me as I only use the pcs to print photos for my classroom.