Game Teaches 8-12 Year Olds How to Be Safe on the Internet
It is estimated that 73% of teens between the ages of 12 to 17 have social networking profiles. Around 86% of teens comment on the pages or walls of their friends' social networking profiles. The goal of the “Tad’s Profile Panic” is to educate kids before they reach their teen years when use of social networking increases.
Kids can now play a game that teaches them how to be safer on the internet. Between the ages of 8 and 12, kids can access the game on NSTeens, a website that both the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Sprint support in honor of Internet Safety Month. The new game, “Tad’s Profile Panic,” teaches kids about what information should not be included in their online profiles. Players help Tad clean up his messy profile by collecting the information that should be kept private while avoiding others who would dispense Tad’s personal information all over school.
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