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My name's Matt Brittin.
I'm the managing director for Google in the UK and Ireland.
I've got two sons, Fred, who's 10, and Nick, who's just
about to turn 9.
The concerns I have about my children using the internet
are just helping them to understand what sensible
guidelines are.
So, for example, not giving away a load of personal
information without knowing who you're giving it to, that
kind of thing.
Do use Safe Search.
I think it's a useful thing to have, and being able to see
the colored balls on the search page means that we
don't have to be standing over them when
they're using the computer.
But we know that they're not going to stumble across stuff
you might not want them to be spending time on.
We do talk about sensible amounts of screen time, not
late at night, never in their bedrooms, and always in a room
where there's an adult.
I think the internet is like the real world.
There are parts of the real world where you would not let
your kids go unsupervised and encouraged to explore
everything.
What I advise people of all ages to do is be very, very
thoughtful about the information that they choose
to make public online to their own network, or to the wider
network, or the whole internet.
So in general, I would be very cautious about making a lot of
information public because you don't know how long it's going
to be there, and you don't know who's going to access
that information.
So you should be prepared for anything you post online in
that way to appear on the TV news or on the front page of
your favorite daily newspaper.
And if you think about that before you post any
information, that helps you to filter out what's the right
stuff to post online.