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This week from our humble farm house on the outside of Harrogate, the new born Lambs are grazing on the fields under the watchful eyes of their mothers. I was thinking at how they dont have to worry about the future and in my environment Technology. Computers now are a daily part of life and can bring us wonderful ways to interact, like blogging but it also presents a danger, its gets lost by government organisations, people use it to harm one another but more importantly it harms our children. I help local people understand their technology should it be the Internet, Computer or iPod you name it! When being called out this week to a home in Kirk Deighton because they we worried about their child crying on the Internet and wanted to know what caused it I was horrified. The poor child was signed up to Facebook and was being bullied through instant messaging and emails, having restored a few and passing them to the child mother the pain in eyes nearly made me cry. Then after the upset anger came in trying to protect her child she demanded I printed them all off and off she went to school armed with her evidence. Its been a few days now and the mother has had chance to calm down and the bullying is being confronted at school. But I ask all of you to watch out for strange signs with children using the Internet, in the press recently tragic things have happened and what makes Internet bullying the worst is how easy and facebook opppps i mean faceless it is. Young children should be monitored using the Internet and if you are suspicious the computer should be in a public place, cast a watchful eye of your childrens Internet friends because nobody know if they are what they say they are, and meeting up with them can have ghastly consequences. One way to get your control back is to add parental controls to the internet, sounds too technical? Get in touch and I will walk you through it! This is not a sale of goods it free advice by email. Please contact me at www.itechplc.com web page