Tag Archive for ‘Social Networking Safety’
For Parents: Did You Know That Your Child Has A Digital Dossier?
Recently, we came across a very powerful, four and a half minute video about digital dossiers, produced by the Digital Natives group at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The 2008 video, created by Kanupriya Tewari, takes a unique look at our online personas and traces our digital footprints from pre-birth to [...]
Social Networks: Should Teachers “Friend” Students Online?
It’s all over the news lately. Several school districts around the country are deciding whether to instill social networking policies, as teachers and students connect online on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. After three teachers in New York City were fired for allegedly flirting with students online, the New York Post nicknamed the recent [...]
Cyberbullying: Facebook Partners with GLAAD to End Anti-Gay Cyberbullying
Facebook has joined forces with The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in an effort to stop anti-gay cyberbullying. The announcement comes after several “bullycide” (suicide as a result of bullying) cases made national news, including the shocking Rutgers case in which freshman Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge [...]
Cyberbullying: Starting the Conversation About Cyberbullying
October 1st marks Cyberbullying Prevention Month and in the wake of so many recent “bullycides,” we thought now might be a good time to delve a bit deeper into the frightening and very real world of cyberbullying. As you already know, there have been numerous cases of severe bullying (both online and off) popping up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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