Tag Archive for ‘Twitter’
Twittering Teens
Is your child on Twitter? Parents are often quick to assume their teen’s social media activity is primarily focused on Facebook, but there’s a good chance they’re on Twitter too. A recent survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which explores the impact of the internet on families and civic life, found [...]
Privacy: 8 New Year’s Resolutions for Protecting Your Privacy Online
Happy New Year! With 2011 off to a great start, we thought now would be the perfect time for a refresher course about basic online privacy protection. In fact, this would serve as a wonderful opportunity for parents to sit down with their children to review how we can all stay safe online. To jumpstart [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Internet Safety: 10 Safety Tips for Twitter Users
Twitter’s Privacy Policy states that their services are not geared towards children under 13-years-old, but we all know kids and teenagers who are active Twitter users. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of 10 helpful safety tips that Twitter users (and their parents) should keep in mind. Never divulge personal information such as [...]
Privacy: Rapper M.I.A. Tweets a Reporter’s Phone Number
In an age where teenagers love to emulate their favorite celebrities, public displays of blatantly disregarding online privacy don’t bode well, and here’s yet another example. The rapper and artist called M.I.A., also known as Maya, was so unhappy with a New York Times Magazine article written by Lynn Hirschberg in which the rapper was criticized for [...]
Privacy: Several Sites Caught Sharing Private Data with Advertisers
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LiveJournal, Digg, and other social-networking sites have been providing advertisers with their users’ personal information without their permission. Shared data included names, user IDs and profile information. Since Facebook requires users to sign up with their real names, this posed a greater [...]
Social Networks: Facebook Competition Heats Up
Amid Facebook’s recent privacy issues, several start-up social networks have come out of the woodwork. One such start-up, called Pip.io, is a cross between Facebook and Twitter, but differs from both by keeping more of their users’ information private. Other start-ups that cite better privacy controls include Appleseed, Diaspora, OneSocialWeb, Crabgrass, Elgg and Collegiate Nation. [...]
Online Reputation: How To Manage Your Online Reputation
Remember, your online reputation = what you do and say + what others say about you. Tip #1 Manage your connections on all social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. You may have locked your security settings, but what about your friends? If an outsider landed on their page, what would they find out [...]
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