Has your child been a victim of hijacking? Hijacking
in the technology world is when a “so called” friend uses your child’s login
and password information to access their account. When their account is accessed
by their "friend," the friend can start off by making changes to the games’ characters
such as an outfit or name.
Login and password information can easily be viewed
when your child visits another friend’s house and is on the computer and goes
onto a gaming site. The child may not even realize they left their login and
password information on the computer for their friend to access their account. What
happens as innocence fun for one child can lead to upsetting the other child.
If parents are not aware of this type of behavior
from children they are contributing to cyber bullying. Children need to be
taught to respect others’ personal information even if it is on your family’s
computer. When this lesson is not taught, then it lends to the possibility of
these children as teens to continue accessing their “friends” accounts and
posting embarrassing or untruthful information. In the end, it is cyber bullying.
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