ScreenRetriever’s Online Safety Blog
ScreenRetriever helps monitor kids' online activity (podcast)
Larry Magid, technology journalist for CBS news, Internet safety advocate–Connectsafely.org,SafeKids.com, and journalist C-net, Huffington Post speaks with Victoria Kempf, Chief Evangelist and co-founder of ScreenRetriever. Listen here “When my kids were teens, my wife and I would occasionally walk into the room when they were on the Internet. We wouldn’t stand there for long, but we would glance at the screen to make sure what they were doing was appropriate. The rule was that they had to use a computer in a public area of the house with the door open. We didn’t spy on them, but we did...
read moreWhat happens when children encounter a negative experience online and what can parents do?
According to the Norton Online Family Report (June 2010) 62% of children worldwide have had a negative experience online. Not surprisingly, according to the report, there is an emotional impact on children when they have a negative experience. “One third of children feel anger, upset, fear and worry. One fifth of children feel embarrassed and live with online regret.” The report states “Children feel increasing levels of responsibility for their negative experiences online,” whether from responding to an online/email scam, receiving a sexual image, seeing violent/nude images or downloading a virus to...
read moreScreenRetriever Product Launch
ScreenRetriever Gives Parents Total Supervision Of Children’s Internet Use Live Remote Monitoring Makes Other Online Safety Products Instantly Obsolete Sudbury, MA (PRWEB) February 10, 2011 ScreenRetriever (http://www.screenretriever.com) proudly announces the launch of its flagship namesake product, ScreenRetriever, the first and only online safety product to provide parents with real time supervision of their children’s computer activity. ScreenRetriever provides an experience similar to television’s “picture within a picture,” displaying a live image of the child’s computer...
read moreTweens/Teens Doing a Good Job of K.P.C (Keeping Parents Clueless)
It shouldn’t be surprising to learn that many tweens/teens don’t want their parents to know what they’re doing when they are online. It’s obvious to any parent of a teen that has walked into the room when their teen is using the computer and have seen browser windows close, browser history erased, or blockers circumvented. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “64% of all teens say that teens do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about” and “63% of teens said they know how to hide what they do online from their parents.” (Harris...
read moreScreenRetriever Presents at Mass Innovation Nights
ScreenRetriever, along with nine other start-up companies from the Boston area, took part in Mass Innovation Nights at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham on Thursday, Jan 13th. We put our best foot forward in a nail-biting voting contest to win one of the four spots to present at #MIN22 (as it is known on Twitter). ScreenRetriever came in second! ScreenRetriever’s CEO, Gary Warzynski, presented our innovative new monitoring software that allows parents to parent online just as they do offline. More than 100 people from the business community came to the ScreenRetriever booth to learn more about our...
read moreIs Your New Year’s Resolution to Monitor What Your Kids Are Doing Online?
Kids are back in school after the holiday break. Let’s start them off on the right foot when it comes to computer use. Monitor what your kids are doing online. Did you know that a study by Duke University scholars of 150,000 North Carolina students, in grades 5-8, revealed negative effects of home computers on reading and math scores? A conclusion was also reached that the home computer “is put to more productive use in households with more effective monitoring of child behavior.” This seems like common sense doesn’t it? But there you have it – a study to verify this common sense view. Children in...
read moreSocial Networking Goes Beyond Facebook
Your child disappears in their bedroom for hours…You know they’re on the computer…Do you wonder what they’re doing online? I know it may seem amazing but Facebook isn’t the only social networking site. There has been a proliferation of social networking sites in recent months. There are actually upwards of 100 social networking sites and the list is growing. ScreenRetriever’s Online Safety and Behavior Center provides a list of social networking sites that you can reference and become familiar with – perhaps ask your child which ones they are familiar with or have used. Facebook...
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