Today, there is information of all kinds on the internet, and we can search and even buy practically what comes to mind. Therefore, when we leave in the hands of a minor a device with unlimited access to the networkIt is worth controlling this access and avoiding misuse of it. This is why there are many solutions known as parental controls.
Parental controls can be carried out in any specific application for it, both on a mobile device and on a computer. However, Mac OS X brings us by default the possibility of internally managing all these configurations, and that is what we are going to see next: how to configure our computer to be sure that our son or brother can make use of these amazing tools without fear or danger to misuse them:
The first thing to do is organize the computer in different users. In System preferences -> Parental controls, we can add as many additional accounts as we need.
Parental Control is found in System Preferences.
There must always be a "adult" user I supervise the rest, and each one implies a password. We must add it indicating the age of the minor, establishing a password for said user and configuring the settings that we consider appropriate.
It is enough to add a few data to configure the account to be controlled.
For example, pages banned for this account, allowed internet links, censored words when searching the net, applications with restricted access, ...
We can manage which pages we can access and which will be censored.
Prevent or allow the use of the camera, access to Mac applications, access to the Mac App Store where you can buy apps,…
Even Mac's own applications, such as access to the camera or Mail.
We can customize all these settings according to the age of the child and what we want to censor, giving it a proper and responsible use of the technologies that are available today.
Managing the hours of access to the computer, be it weekends, holidays or a few hours a day, is very useful to control indiscriminate use.
Even establish schedules for its use, thus avoiding a prolonged exposure to these devices or excesses when we are not at home and we can dose their use. We just have to press on the padlock that appears in the lower left part to complete the changes and that the minor does not have access to the modification of these controls.
A very powerful tool that comes by default on every Mac and whose objective is the safety and supervision of the minor, thus avoiding access to sensitive information for the minor and excesses with these technologies.
In addition to these settings, there are nowadays multiple options, outside of those offered by OS X as standard, capable of performing similar functions that can be adjusted according to the specific needs of each user and be useful when carrying out this type of operation. parental censorship.
All protection is little for a minor in an environment where every day there is more and more access to unlimited information.