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30% of Saudi Arabian parents find something in their child's social media account potentially dangerous
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 02 - 06 - 2020

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has forced families to spend their free time mostly at home. Staying at home usually also means spending much time using different internet connected devices. For clear reasons, children's growing online activity can cause lots of worries to their parents.
Thus, according Kaspersky survey, 30% of Saudi Arabian parents claim that they have come across something in their child's social media account that seemed suspicious. Elaborating on what it exactly was, they mention groups or public pages they join (44%), people they interact with (41%), posts that he publishes or shares (41%), video on their page (40%) and private messages (16%).
What is more, 38% state their child has seen or listened to something that seemed suspicious to them, be that videos (69%), photos (33%) or music (22%). Obviously, these data show the need to explore the interests of children, to make sure everything is okay or it is necessary to take action.
However, not all the parents realize it — only 40% of them befriend their children via social networks in order to be connected with their kids — sometimes real communication is not enough and the parents have to look carefully at their children's webpages.
"It gets harder and harder for parents to keep up with the pace of modern evolving world. They are often left out of the picture as they simply do not catch with trends that emerge way too fast. However, it is possible to stop this backlog by communicating with your child and ensuring your presence on the Internet – to build trust and good relationship with your child you have to know what you are talking about with them," said Maher Yamout, senior security researcher at Kaspersky.
In order to eliminate groundless suspicions about your child's digital life and to secure their presence on social media, Kaspersky strongly recommends following this advice:
• Learn more on the topic of children's cybersecurity: explore modern trends, apps, the way of behavior that has to be adopted in order to safeguard against dangers (for instance, the basic security rules while on the Internet);
•Communicate with your child and define the borders which are not meant to cross: discuss with them safe locations both real and webpages;
• Install a reliable security solution such as Kaspersky Safe Kids to monitor your child's activity successfully. — SG


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