On the iKeepSafe blog, “Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer For MySpace on Discussing Cyber Safety with Teens and Children”
It’s all a matter of perspective – just like when you think about approaching your teens about safety and privacy. In your mind, you might be wondering whether your child will think you’re intruding in their online space, so you decide not to say anything. But maybe that’s just your perspective – dividing up the online from the offline and treating them differently.
Internet Safety writes “Safe Eyes Mobile Complements Apple’s Parental Controls on iPhone”
We want to applaud Apple for making the iPhone and iPod touch more family-friendly by introducing their parental controls in the 3.0 update. The new settings allow parents to restrict movie, TV show, music, podcast and application access by user age.
PC Pandora gives their take on “Cox Communications’ Annual Survey: Cyberbullying and Sexting”
The fourth annual National Teen Summit held by Cox Communications released results of a new study on Cyberbullying and Sexting. The results aren’t all too shocking and pretty much what one would expect – if you are embedded in the issue like we are. But for parents who are clueless, some stuff may come as a shocker.
Anne Collier at NetFamily News writes about “Facebook’s new public/private feature”
Is Facebook becoming a cross between Twitter and a mini-blogosphere? Partly – if you make your status updates as long as blog posts. The social network site “is rolling out a new option for users who have made their profiles viewable by everyone,” the Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro reports. “
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