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Teens and Privacy
by Tiana Green
on March 25, 2011
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· in Featured, Online Security, Social Networking, Youth & Technology
Teenagers need privacy, but how much is too much? It is our job as parents to know what our children are doing and make sure that they are not getting into trouble. It is hard to find the right balance between respecting their privacy and making sure our teens are making good decision for themselves. [...]
This Week in the Social Networks: With the end of the school year right around the corner, teens have just one thing on their mind: Prom. Prom is still about a month and a half away for many high school juniors and seniors, but most teens have already begun making plans. Who am I going [...]
Teens have had a lot to talk about on the social network this week. If you thought your teen had intense mood swings before, the events from this week have caused a mixture of emotions from sadness and fear followed by excitement and confusion all within a few days of one another. First, the tragic [...]
Is “The Social Network” the new “Breakfast Club”?
by Reference Article
on March 16, 2011
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· in In the News, Online Security, Social Networking
If you’re like many parents of teenagers, you’ve probably been hearing about The Social Network (movie) since last fall but haven’t been able to find the time to actually sit down and watch it. Well, no worries because our staff writers have created a brief synopsis of the movie as well as some interesting commentary [...]
Remember the good old days before your kids became tweens and teens and actually used to talk to you about their lives without an interrogation? They’re constantly texting, tweeting on Twitter, making new video blogs for YouTube and posting on Facebook, but somehow when you ask them how school was the answer is always “Fine.” [...]
TechCrunch reports that Disney has acquired Togetherville, a Social Network for Kids Disney has just acquired Togetherville, a social network for kids 10 years of age or younger, we’ve confirmed with the company. Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed at the moment. Togetherville, which exited beta last year, mimics the experience of adult social networking sites, i.e. [...]
Despite the common perception that sites such as Facebook breed narcissism, a new World Vision study says almost half of all teens are becoming more cause-oriented through social networking. When it comes to spreading the good word, girls are more likely to let others know which charities they support. 41 percent of girls say they’ll [...]
As a follow-up to last weeks post on managing Facebook privacy settings, we wanted to share with parents a quick and easy way to get an outside perspective of how their child’s profile is represented online. If you have direct access to your child’s account settings you can easily preview how they appear to people [...]
As we’ve discussed in the past, navigating the often changing and confusing security settings on Facebook can be both challenging and frustrating. In an effort to make this process easier for you and your children, today we bring you an article courtesy of Mashable that explains some of the must-knows. Facebook’s privacy settings are extremely [...]
A California high school student has been suspended for making rude remarks about a teacher on Facebook. For the more old-fashioned disciplinarians among us, this might seem like common sense; however, the ACLU is claiming the student’s free speech rights were violated and says the school broke federal and state laws. In a letter to Mesa [...]
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