Online game safety tips

21 August, 2010

Online games are wildly popular, deeply immersive, and a whole lot of fun. Players are encouraged to abandon their realities and explore a virtual world on their own, or among a group of online friends.  Parents, however, need to be alert.  Online games launch children into a world with hundreds, maybe thousands, of other real live people, all interacting together through their in-game avatars or characters.  Male, female, old, young…part of the allure of online gaming is that the actual players behind the avatars can remain anonymous.  Often, these games offer in-game voice chat as well as the traditional keyboard based chatting.