Online Gaming Ads

Posted by Carroll Trosclair Dec 16, 2007

Parents have reason to be concerned about some of the online advertising now targeted at their kids.

As S. M. Thomas points out in her article about Online Gaming Ads, "some advertisers are now skillfully disguising their adverts as system memos or even security alerts."

Some of those ads, she says, take kids to dating sites, casino sites and other adult gaming sites.

Thomas says many kids are sufficiently sophisticated to recognize such tricks and "derive great satisfaction from beating the advertisers." But she suggests several steps that parents can take to keep teens from falling prey to such sites.