Users are kicked out of a chat room if the supervisor deems their language to be inappropriate. AOL's Member Profile, e-mail, and chat areas permit extensive collection of personal information. The option of presetting billing limits is also provided. AOL offers its members Cyber Patrol, which is described below. Prodigy provides parents with the option to control access to its individual bulletin boards, chat areas, or newsgroups.
Parents can also block complete access to the Web for certain users.
Prodigy offers kids and teen chat rooms, as well as special Web areas exclusively for children and teens. Prodigy also makes Cyber Patrol available to its members. Within Prodigy's chat rooms and public forums, users are prevented from posting items deemed unacceptable for children. CompuServe offers parents the option of controlling which areas members of the family can enter by using passwords. No chat areas are available for children.