Philippine E-Journals

PARENTAL CONTROL: AN APPLICATION TO MONITOR CHILD ACTIVITIES ONLINE THROUGH SMS

Mark Anthony Y. Hernandez | Darwin Clovis E. Razo | Pievan John M. Tocao | Exander T. Barrios

 

Abstract:

With the increasing utilization of the Internet services, it is difficult to monitor online activities of people especially children. Since the Internet provides a vast collection of information, in any form and from various sources, it is important for parents to ensure that what their children gets are only those that will be beneficial for them. The purpose of this study is to present opportunities for many parent/s or guardian/s in monitoring online activities of children. The researchers used Constructive Research Method as guide. As an offshoot to this study, the researchers have developed an application that monitors what children are accessing in the Internet. The application works by providing parents ability to receive a notification in the form of short messaging system texts that is sent whenever access to websites with malicious and inappropriate content are made. This in turn lets the parent allow or prohibit the access. The application was tested and the results show that it was able to provide parents the capability to monitor and control their children’s access to various websites. The researchers were able to conclude that with the help of the application, inappropriate activities of children were minimized.