To guard you from a potential hole to stumble into, below is linked a very alarming article about google images.
Now that I have faster internet I put up a few blog posts (Missions - a Sovereign Grace Perspective in case you are interested) and wanted to post pics to accompany the blog posts. So I used google images for the first time on my wife's laptop without Covenant Eyes (using the phrase "missionary"). Google images displayed a few inappropriate thumbnails. It seems that inappropriate images can turn up without even deliberately looking for them.
My laptop had Covenant Eyes but I am trying to get a new one now, and I'll be putting the filter onto my wife's laptop today (we didn't before because females don't seem to be so much image-enticed as men, i.e., it didn't seem necessary).
In a related subject, youtube is awesome, but sometimes the suggested videos to the side margin are not always appropriate and they seem to try to entice. Even facebook ads can be this way.
Also, much like some folks I know who will not even possess a television, I am starting to think that no Christian should cruise online without filtering software since what is seen cannot be unseen.
How do you others manage to search pics online or youtube safely or deal with facebook or even news feeds which have advertisements mixed in? Even internet filters sometimes miss these things.
Cyber Safety for Teachers: The hidden dangers of image searching
Now that I have faster internet I put up a few blog posts (Missions - a Sovereign Grace Perspective in case you are interested) and wanted to post pics to accompany the blog posts. So I used google images for the first time on my wife's laptop without Covenant Eyes (using the phrase "missionary"). Google images displayed a few inappropriate thumbnails. It seems that inappropriate images can turn up without even deliberately looking for them.
My laptop had Covenant Eyes but I am trying to get a new one now, and I'll be putting the filter onto my wife's laptop today (we didn't before because females don't seem to be so much image-enticed as men, i.e., it didn't seem necessary).
In a related subject, youtube is awesome, but sometimes the suggested videos to the side margin are not always appropriate and they seem to try to entice. Even facebook ads can be this way.
Also, much like some folks I know who will not even possess a television, I am starting to think that no Christian should cruise online without filtering software since what is seen cannot be unseen.
How do you others manage to search pics online or youtube safely or deal with facebook or even news feeds which have advertisements mixed in? Even internet filters sometimes miss these things.
Cyber Safety for Teachers: The hidden dangers of image searching