Potential risks for our children on the internet – Pornographic content

In this article the danger for children using the internet are being discussed. Almost every child has some sort of internet access in these days. This is possible because of the fast technology advancement of the last couple of years, but also comes with a lot of potentials risks for the youth. Beneath are some hard facts listed about such risks as children getting access to pornography:

• The average age that children are getting in touch with pornography, is around the age of 11
• 85% of all children between the age of 6 and 16 face pornographic content in the internet (on purpose or not-willingly) while playing around in the internet
• 25% of all children release their own personal data (including home address, full name or email address) in the internet
• 60% of the children who committed suicide announced their intention directly or indirectly online via portals
• 20% of all the children who are chatting with people they don’t know in person (there are several platforms for this) do chat with people with pedophiliac intention

Research and criminal investigations units estimate that everyday around 60.000 pedophiliac people look for children online with the intention to gain trust through conversations and starting friendships with the hope of meeting the children face to face in real life.

The most important question parents get asked when their own child is getting involved in a situation like this how they could not prevent this. In most cases the answer is quite simple and sad: they just didn’t know about this. Some parents just don’t know which risks children face in the internet and what they can do to effectively to protect their children from such risks. When parents just could secretly read some of the chat conversations when they feel that their children are behaving in a weird way or when they suspect anything, a lot of children could be protected. 

So are parents the ones that need to be blamed in this situation? In my personal opinion, a lot of parents already know what kind of dangers and risks could potentially harm their children and are already talking about this kind of topic with them in advance proactively. But it turns out that education and knowledge about this topic is not enough at this cause. Especially children with less life experience can make false decisions that lead to tragic events and might affect them the rest of their life – from a physical point of view as well as from a psychological one.

We live in a fast-moving society where everyone is busy and often times children also have their own computer to handle their school work and to play games in their free time. Parents usually don’t have the time or possibility to follow up every move their child is doing on the internet side by side in person. Are they using pornografic websites or are they visiting illegal sites where they can download software that they don’t have the legal right to use. These downloads can lead to lawsuits that cost several thousands of USD because they are hurting personal rights.  

The most important questions at this point is: How can parents react to these dangers while still giving their children enough free space so they can develop themselves? Is education and having an open talk with them sufficient? Probably not!

The easiest way to stop this is just to stop your children being able to access the internet via their cellphone or computer. This one is probably not practical though because a lot of the learning necessary for school education is based on internet research an being able to gather information fast. Also when parents are shutting down the internet access on the computer of their kids they probably find a way to access anyway (public library, friends, etc.).

What needs to be done is to stop internet usage without parental supervision or control. What we need to consider here is that the children’s’ knowledge in IT programs is in most cases more advanced that the one of their parents. So an easy check of their web browser history might not be sufficient to protect them. There are easy and effective solutions to protect your children: It is the state of the art software Wolfeye Keylogger. It is an invisible, easy-to-use protection software which allows you as a parent, to supervise secretly all activity on a computer and provides you protocols and reports directly to your private email address to evaluate the computer usage of your children.

The software “Made in Germany” recognizes all keystrokes and passwords that are being typed on the computer and all programs that are being used. The Wolfeye keylogger is started automatically with every start of Windows and cannot be seen from your children – not in the task bar and not in the installed programs window either. The software is in use by hundreds of parents already and does not require special IT skills. It helps parents to gain a detailed and extensive overview over all the activities on the computer. Of course, there is no solution out there that is perfect to 100 percent. Wolfeye keylogger is a very powerful software, that has one downside: privacy.

Does this software intervene in the private life of your child: yes. Can it potentially help to protect the life of your children and help prevent them from strangers that want to undertake harmful actions one them: absolutely yes.

​As a parent it is your choice to decide what is more important. In any way you are the one that has to carry this decision what is more important for yourself and your children.

When you have any more questions about our keylogger software just let us know. We offer a three-day trials software download so you are able to check out the program. We are happy to help to make this planet a safer place for our children.