In chat, don't let people follow you, and don't go into a private room with anyone. If they put you in a private room, sometimes you can't get out. We recently asked online market researchers NFO Interactive for their take on how many online US households use some sort of Net filtering software or service. That first statistic is very interesting. Filtering is certainly not for everybody, and we take no position on individual family decisions, but it would be interesting to hear from you why you've made whatever decision you have on filtering.
Parents can help each other with their growing expertise in online-parenting.
We've all heard the saying that experience is the best teacher, well one Web entrepreneur is capitalizing on that. According to Wired News , Greg Schmergel, founder of ExpertCentral , figures search engines just don't fill the bill for a lot of people and their questions. Sometimes the answers will cost ya, but cost is negotiable - between questioner and answerer. Take a look at the Wired article to get a feel for how successful the site has been already. Nine years into that run the show's creators saw the need for a reference book for finding reliable answers to the show's obscure questions, and the Information Please Almanac was born.