In this day and age you'd be pretty stupid to not have a filter for your Internet. There are so many scary things that are easily accessible on-line. Why take the risk of having someone stumble across something inappropriate or addictive? Shoot, if I can do one more thing to protect my family from the adversary, then I will!
That is why I love the K-9 Web Protection program that we have. It's free and it's good. So good in fact that sometimes I get blocked when shopping on-line, looking for clip-art, or reading articles from the web. No, I'm not trying to do anything nasty or sneaky, but the filter will block anything that could possibly be threatening. Sweet. When that happens, unless I am trying to shop for a new bra or something, I just turn around and go to a different unblocked site. (Yeah, it even blocks underwear and bathing suit sites sometimes. Which I don't get why they have women posing all sexy in things because I'm thinkin' it's usually women buying that stuff. So a woman trying to look seductive in a bathing suit isn't really doing much for me aside from annoying the heck out of me. I'd rather just see it on a mannequin.) Anyhow, it blocks everything.
And I am glad it does. Sometimes I will go to use the computer after my kids have been playing games on it and I find a blocked web page on an open browser. Now my kids are too young and innocent to know what they are doing. They know how to get to Disney and Nick Jr. to play their games, but sometimes they may hit a wrong key and end up somewhere they didn't want to. I'm glad anything slightly questionable is blocked from them. Since we are protected they avoid accidentally stumbling across something scary or immoral that may leave an imprint on their little minds.
We also take things one step further in our home. I am the all powerful holder of our password to bypass blocked websites. We got this idea from my genius sister-in-law. Men are typically more susceptible to pornography. Not to say that women can't be either, but I have the password to protect myself and my husband. If he wants to go to a blocked site, such as Facebook once was when we first installed the filter, he has to come ask me for permission to un-block it. That means I go to the computer and see what site he is trying to access and then un-block it if it is safe. (And it always has been, nothing scandalous for Marshall.) I love having the peace of knowing we are protected. It's one less thing to worry about.
If you're don't have a filter, get one. I love ours. You can download it at http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ Your family is worth it.
No comments:
Post a Comment