Not sure whether this is the right place for this. My daughter is nine years old and has started to pester me to allow her to link with her friends at school via her computer. Up till now I have refused to consider this, and indeed force the use of Sandboxie on her Internet connection, but I think I now have to consider her request. She asked to be allowed to access a site called IMVU but my research suggests that this is not a suitable website for kids and the download file to make it work is dubious.
It leads me to wonder what other loungers with kids have found to be suitable IM sites for their kids, sites where there is some control and perhaps some blocking of sensitive information. Zone Labs suite does help but can be got round by a determined kid. I appreciate that it is my responsibility to teach her how to protect herself on the net, and I take this seriously, but there remains a danger that she will be unsupervised from time to time and might hide things from me. Any advice would be appreciated.
