[Fredslist] The Wired Family: tentative date of March 21

[Jennifer T. Naylor]

Greetings, Gotham:

Tuesday March 21 is the tentative date for our proposed forum on 
parenting in the wild and woolley Internet world of chat rooms, instant 
messaging, online dating and social networking sites.

Please RSVP with me to help gauge interest and determine what is the 
best venue for the group.

To reiterate, this is a proposed forum on parenting in our wired world.

A recent WSJ feature "Big Mother is Watching You" coupled with a
friend's horror at catching her 12-year old kids engaged in some chat
room horseplay prompted me to conceive a forum to bring parents,
ethicists and technologists together for a discussion on the technical,
ethical and legal implications of parenting our children in a playground 
without boundaries playing with playmates without faces and context.

Our Gotham panel features technology and security expert Raj Goel, Susan 
Pickman specializing in online fraud and Internet predations, and Dr. 
Andrea Gould, psychologist and family therapist.

Some of the topics our panelists will cover are:

1. the monitoring technology options including how to set permissions on 
popular portals like AOL

2. the sort of activities and scams kids might fall prey to including 
pornography, stalking, social engineering to get personal info, spyware 
implants.

3. why kids would be attracted to these activities, what kind of kids 
are at risk, what are the warning signs (if any) and how to talk to kids 
about the dangers without sounding patronizing.

Regards,

Jennifer Naylor
Gotham Womens LI
tel.: 516.656.3389
e-mail: naylorjt at optonline.net

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