Marsali Hancock at iKeepSafe blogs about the “NTIA Online Safety and Technology Working Group,”
June 3, 2009 the Online Safety and Technology Working Group (OSTWG) began. The purpose of the group is to make recommendations for better online safety for children, specifically in regards to education, labeling, and parental control technology.
Anne Collier at ConnectSafely.org blogs about “Why Gen Y’s not into Twitter?”
The bottom line: “We have everything we need on Facebook,” says Gen Y CNET blogger Sharon Vaknin – though, despite an insightful post, she’s pretty hard on her generation.
Kelly Scott at NetSmartz writes on “Teens Talk Back: Ew! Why’d You Post That?”
I believe the kids that share their entire lives on their social networking pages are naive about the extensive reach of the Internet. When I’m on Facebook and see some of the pictures my friends post on their pages, I cringe.
Stanley Holditch at InternetSafety.com blogs, “Could You Read This?”
Chatting remains incredibly popular among children and teens, and unfortunately it is therefore popular with online predators as well. Chat rooms and Instant Messaging programs remain the most popular medium with predators, and monitoring them without using a software designed for it is already incredibly hard. Then you get into chatspeak…
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