In England a new innovative was recently launched by 13 local authorities. They are using an online questionnaire to ask pupils if they feel that their school is doing enough to cut out the threat of bully’s. More information can be found here

The way in which these local authorities have chosen to hand out this questionnaire highlights the popularity of the internet of a way of communicating.

• This obviously can have its drawbacks as well, with the bully’s themselves using the internet as a way to further harass their victims.

Netidme being in a position to offer the next step in clamping down on bullying by offering the latest security measures to put a halt to bullying from progressing to the internet.

There has been another case of a man posing as a teenager to lure a young girl to meet him as shown in the following article. The article emphasizes the continuing safety-first attitude that should be followed.

The article also highlights the fact that parents are sometimes not as knowledgeable of the current technology as their children “Nowadays there are millions and millions of very young children who are on the Internet.  These young children tend to know more about the Internet than their parents.”

To ensure that your children are not communicating with people that they should not be then it is vitally important that parents take responsibility and ensure that this is not possible.

Using software such as NetIDme provide would ensure that your children have a simple way of protecting their identity while being able to prove their age and gender to others that they wish to communicate with.

A recent article published in the American Observer highlights the increasing problem of classroom bully’s using the internet as an another way of bulling their victims. ‘Cyber-bulling’ as it is known can range from threatening messages online, to leaving insulting messages on a website.

Most instances of bulling was through text messaging and in chat rooms.

NetIDme can provide teenagers with a way of protecting themselves, their identity, while still being able to prove their gender and age online.