Protect Your Kids with Free and Safe E-mail Services

Pen-pal writing is a thing of the past - at least in the pencil, paper, envelope and stamp sense. Now children are e-mailing their friends at school and sharing stories with peers from around the world through online games and chat rooms.

Even though you have the family computer in a visible place and you remind your children frequently about the dangers of unmonitored chat rooms and blogs, you're still worried. Four out of 5 children receive inappropriate spam e-mail including get-rich-quick schemes, loan programs and pornographic materials, according to a study released by Internet security provider Symantec Corporation.

A free e-mail service that is child-friendly and spam-free can help you control and restrict the e-mails your children are receiving and sending. It should also have filters to remove profanity and that can be customized to edit out names, addresses and phone numbers.

Zilladog.com not only offers these options with its ZillaMail service, but also is a fun destination portal for children created by parents. The site creates a homepage for kids with links to age-appropriate movie trailers and music options as well as games and links to other great children's sites like Webkinz, Club Penguin, Neopets, Cartoon Network, Pokemon and Nickelodeon. New games are added on a regular basis.

"We all know there are some really rough spots on the Internet that we wouldn't want our kids exposed to," says Christine Mason, chief executive officer of Zilladog.com. "Our focus is on providing a safe neighborhood for tech-savvy kids that bring all of the benefits of the Internet while mitigating the risks and eliminating the junk mail and spam from their e-mail accounts. Parents have the option of monitoring online activities as well, offering that personal layer of protection that software programs can't assure and only parents themselves can guarantee."


Visit www.Zilladog.com to sign up your children for ZillaMail, a safe and free e-mail service. Copyright © 2009, ARAnet, Inc.