Archive for September, 2010
Cyberbullying: 13-Year-Old Houston Boy Dies of ‘Bullycide’
Asher Brown, an 8th grade student at Hamilton Middle School in Houston, Texas, committed suicide last Thursday after enduring two years of relentless bullying at school. Brown’s mother and stepfather say their son was bullied about “his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes.” Moreover, students accused Brown [...]
Cyberstalking: Portrait of a Facebook Stalker
Cyberstalkers are not always sexual predators and do not all look like criminals. In fact, in person- they may appear to be just like you and I, but make no mistake: cyberstalkers are driven by obsession, jealousy, manipulation, power, and a slew of other harmful characteristics. If you’re a member of Facebook, you’ve probably heard [...]
Cyberbullying: Freshman Opens Fire at School in South Carolina
It happened again. Last week, a 14-year-old male freshman at Socastee High School near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina shot a campus police officer after rigging several pipe bomb explosives around school grounds. “We’ve got a young man who has been under the dark cloud of bullying for many years now,” said the boy’s attorney, Russell [...]
SafetyWeb Twitter Party Transcript with 5MinutesforMom and Annie Fox #SafetyWeb
Here the full transcript of our @SafetyWeb Twitter Party hosted by Annie Fox and 5MinutesforMom last week! safetyweb: Hello everyone! Glad you’re here with us. safetyweb: We have SafetyWeb Certificates to give away. Each for a 6-month SafetyWeb subscription good for up to 2 children. Annie_Fox: Welcome everyone to our first twitter party. Tonite’s focus: [...]
Social Networks: Facebook Pics of Underage Drinkers Sent to Police
Everybody is talking in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Melrose about almost 70 underage high school teens that were caught on camera playing a popular drinking game called beer pong. The photographs were first posted on Facebook and show the students, some of which are sports team captains, at a summer house party with alcohol [...]
Parenting: SafetyWeb, 5 Minutes for Mom, and Annie Fox Party on Twitter!
We’re proud to report that last night’s online safety Twitter party was a huge success. Thank you to all the wonderful participants for helping to create a thoughtful, engaging conversation about online and mobile safety. …and congratulations to our prize winners who received a complimentary 6-month subscription to SafetyWeb! If you missed all the fun, [...]
Cyberbullying: New Evidence Shows Cyberbullying Victims Suffer High Risk for Depression
Victims of electronic harassment experience an increase in depression and hopelessness, according to a new study released Tuesday by The National Institutes of Health (NIH). Based on information obtained from over 7,000 American students, researchers also found that cyberbullying victims showed a higher rate for depression than face-to-face bullying victims, most likely due to the [...]
Cyberbullying: High School Hazing Takes To The Internet
Many of us have suffered through some form of hazing over the course of our lives, whether it was an older sibling who forced us to eat an inedible concoction, or a sorority/fraternity initiation process in college. So, it was no real surprise when students at a suburban Philadelphia high school started a Facebook group [...]
Internet Safety: Tips to Keep Kids Safe on Skype
September 1st marked the first day of school for a 10-year-old girl in Lake Forest, Illinois. That evening, she used Skype, a free video chat and instant messaging service, to talk to her friends about their first day and discuss homework assignments. Everything was going great until an unfamiliar screen name popped up and requested [...]
Cyberstalking: Spyware Allows Stalkers to Tap Into Cell Phones
You probably think that your cell phone calls are always private and secure, but you’re wrong. A quick Google search will lead you to hundreds of different types of stealth technology services available to anyone for spying purposes. These surveillance products are extremely easy to install and allow cyberstalkers to tap into any target mobile [...]
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