Here is a quick guide on how to keep your children safe while they are online or if you are thinking about buying them xbox live.
1 Make sure you are in control and you know what they are playing what they are seeing who they talk to. Xbox live has a range of social features and dash bored advertisements that may not be appropriate for your child to see.
2 Make sure you know what there playing if they start running around your house naked shouting HEADSHOT NOOBS then there is something wrong if not and you want to prevent that sort of thing from happening then simply make sure the games you buy them are appropriate. Games like call of duty or gears of war contain gore inappropriate language and lots of violence. Remember to check the case before buying it. It will show you the age limit and games rating. Here is a list of the ratings
Titles rated EC (Early Childhood) have content that may be suitable for ages 3 and older. Contains no material that parents would find inappropriate.
Titles rated E (Everyone) have content that may be suitable for ages 6 and older. Titles in this category may contain minimal cartoon, fantasy or mild violence and/or infrequent use of mild language.
Titles rated E10+ (Everyone 10 and older) have content that may be suitable for ages 10 and older. Titles in this category may contain more cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, mild language and/or minimal suggestive themes.
Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language.
Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.
Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
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You can also prevent your child from doing some of this stuff using the tools on your xbox360 and also setting up their xbox live account for them using their real age.
To use these tools from the dashboard (home screen) scroll all right all the way to the end and click family for even more helpful settings click privacy (this mainly controls what they do online it's worth checking out).
3 blocking avoiding and filling complaints
If you or your child comes across someone you would rather not have communication with you can avoid the player by viewing his profile and click submit player review however this dose not block the user it makes it less likely to be placed in random games together. If a user sends a nasty message you can then block communications by opening the message and clicking block communications and you can also file a complaint by viewing his profile and clicking file complaint.
4 Please also remember that the terms of use and code of conduct apply to your child no matter how old they are if they break the rules they will be punished if caught.
If you have not read the code of conduct or terms of use
You can find them here
Code of Conduct
http://www.xbox.com/en-IN/Legal/codeofconduct
Terms of use
http://www.xbox.com:80/en-GB/Legal/LiveTOU
5 Never let your son give out his personal information (full name address Age phone number social networking accounts date of birth).
Follow these steps your child should have a fun yet safe online gaming experience.
GAME ON!
