![]() ![]() To explain how OpenDNS works, I first have to explain a little bit about how the internet really works. The solution I speak of is through a website called and the basic service is, and has always been 100% free. It does, however allow parents to take a much firmer grasp on what is allowed in the home. Sadly, this technology does not extend to smartphone internet on the cellular network. Well, anything connecting through a wireless router anyway. In this particular article, I will present parents with a great free way to filter out most harmful internet content to all of the devices in their home simultaneously. So, when I say that I am dead set on helping families prevent this kind of tragedy from happening, I mean it with conviction. Even today, certain images in sidebars of news blogs, advertisements, and other sites can act as temptations to go down the rabbit hole once again. It was only after a lot of prayer and what I feel was a special grace given to me by God through the sacrament of Matrimony that the addiction finally subsided. This lead to what I can only refer to as an addiction, even as I publicly professed my Catholic faith and even taught Confirmation class for my parish. In middle school, despite my father using a teen level restriction on my AOL account, I discovered the dark pit of internet pornography. We were a cutting-edge family when it came to technology and we loved the sound of the dial-up modem as it beeped and whirred eventually resulting in the iconic, “You've Got Mail!” blaring through the computer speakers. I was fortunate to grow up in a home where my parents could afford computers in the late 80's and early 90's. It is the job of good Catholic and Christian parents everywhere to do everything possible to protect their children, and even each other, from those darker parts of the internet. However, not all parts of the internet, and many which are far too easy to access, can and will tear apart marriages, rob young children of their childhood innocence, and also lead to addictions. With the internet anyone can quickly find a recipe, information for school reports, and best of all, great communities of faithful Catholics so that a person might not feel lost alone, adrift in the raging morally indifferent waters of our society. The internet and social media are one of the crowning inspirations God has bestowed upon mankind. ![]()
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