Post by juju on Mar 30, 2006 23:42:07 GMT -5
Yahoo! Family Account Helps Monitor Kids' Activities
A Yahoo! Family Account won’t give you complete control over your child’s online activities, but it will restrict access to some areas of Yahoo!. For example, a user younger than 13 years old cannot use Yahoo! Wallet, participate in Yahoo! Auctions, or create a Yahoo! public profile. A Yahoo! Family Account also provides tools for restricting Yahoo! usage. For example, you can create a personalized Yahoo! Mail Block List to prevent messages from certain individuals or with certain content from arriving in your child’s inbox. You can also edit a child’s Yahoo! Messenger Friend List and Ignore List. To edit the Mail Block List, sign into Yahoo! as your child. Then go to Yahoo! Mail. In the upper-right corner of the screen, you should see an Options link. Click it and then click Block Addresses in the Spam column. Type the email address you want to block in the Enter Email Address (Or Domain) To Block field and click the Add Block button. It is similarly easy to add addresses to your child’s Yahoo! Messenger Friend List and Ignore List. Go to the Edit Your Friend List (edit.yahoo.com/config/set_buddylist?.src=pg) and log in as your child. Type the Yahoo! ID of someone you want to add to your child’s Friend List in the Yahoo! ID field in the Add A Friend box. Then click the Add Friend button.
This tip is from Smart Computing
A Yahoo! Family Account won’t give you complete control over your child’s online activities, but it will restrict access to some areas of Yahoo!. For example, a user younger than 13 years old cannot use Yahoo! Wallet, participate in Yahoo! Auctions, or create a Yahoo! public profile. A Yahoo! Family Account also provides tools for restricting Yahoo! usage. For example, you can create a personalized Yahoo! Mail Block List to prevent messages from certain individuals or with certain content from arriving in your child’s inbox. You can also edit a child’s Yahoo! Messenger Friend List and Ignore List. To edit the Mail Block List, sign into Yahoo! as your child. Then go to Yahoo! Mail. In the upper-right corner of the screen, you should see an Options link. Click it and then click Block Addresses in the Spam column. Type the email address you want to block in the Enter Email Address (Or Domain) To Block field and click the Add Block button. It is similarly easy to add addresses to your child’s Yahoo! Messenger Friend List and Ignore List. Go to the Edit Your Friend List (edit.yahoo.com/config/set_buddylist?.src=pg) and log in as your child. Type the Yahoo! ID of someone you want to add to your child’s Friend List in the Yahoo! ID field in the Add A Friend box. Then click the Add Friend button.
This tip is from Smart Computing