It’s important to be aware of what your children do online. To achieve this one must also be aware of the “tricks” they pull in order to hide their activity.
A recent survey entitled, Teen Internet Behavior study released last week by McAfee, the online-security tech company, found that children are really good at covering their tracks.
The following are the top 10 ways children hide online behaviour from their parents:
-Clearing the browser history (53 percent)
-Closing/minimizing browser when a parent is around (46 percent)
-Hiding or deleting messages and videos (34 percent)
-Lying about online activities (23 percent)
-Using a computer parents don’t check (23 percent)
-Using an Internet-enabled mobile device (21 percent)
-Using privacy settings to make certain content viewable only by friends (20 percent)
-Using a browser’s private viewing mode (20 percent)
-Creating private email address unknown to parents (15 percent)
-Creating duplicate/fake social network profiles (9 percent)
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