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• Parents Beat Kid Over MySpace Page

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Okay, this is a little too far. As much as the parents may have hated the idea of their 14-year-old girl being on MySpace, especially against their wishes, this is NOT the answer. Makes me sick. November 3, 2009 Parents allegedly beat teen for getting MySpace page By Eric Litke, Sheboygan Press staff A ...
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• We Need Smart Online Safety, Not Thoughtless Rhetoric

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Great article. I agree with everything 100%. I just wish parents would listen, learn and act… Happy Friday! November 1, 2009 A Better Safety Net: It’s time to get smart about online safety It’s time to get smart about online safety By Anne Collier, School Library Journal Online safety as we ...
  3 days ago

• Social Networks and Kids

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  This is a good thought-provoking piece from CNN on the appropriate age for social networks like MySpace and Facebook. Truthfully, I don’t think it’s an age thing, I think it’s a maturity thing. I know a lot of 12-year-old that can be ok on there, and a lot of 16-year-olds that shouldn’t be on there. Either ...
  3 days ago

• Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online

  
  Moomette's Magnificents — Authority: 128
  Kids and Family I’d like to let you know about a new resource available at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC is introducing Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online . This booklet is chock-full of practical tips to help parents help their kids navigate the online world – whether ...
  4 days ago

• 14-year-old Girl Runs Away with 18-year-old College Boy She Met Online

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  The moral of the story here is that a 14-year-old girl lied about her age and voluntarily ran away with an 18-year-old boy she met online. Think your kids are perfect angels? Are you sure? Better think twice. If the parents had computer monitoring software , they could have prevented this situation from happening. ...
  4 days ago

• Illinois Launches Internet Safety Contest

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  This is some very cool news to report, from the “Land of Lincoln”… November 3, 2009 State pushing internet safety message to students Illinois launches its first statewide Internet safety contest to raise awareness about the dangers of the Internet. State Superintendent of Education Christopher A. ...
  4 days ago

• The Birds and the Bees – and Social Media

  
  The Buzz Bin — Authority: 118
  by Jenn Riggle  Photo courtesy of San Jose Library I’m not proud to say that I have a double standard when it comes to social media and my kids. But I have to admit, I’m a “Do as I say, not as I do” kind of mom. I have a Twitter account, Facebook page, a LinkedIn profile and spend a lot of my time on ...
  5 days ago

• Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday #66

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Here are two more good reasons to keep track of who your kids are talking to online… A 40-year-old Florida man got 20 years for luring and molesting a 12-year-old and 14-year-old girl through MySpace. THIS GUY SUCCEEDED! A 52-year-old man in Pennsylvania was arrested for driving to a meeting in hopes of having ...
  5 days ago

• Advances in the Fight Against Cyberbullying

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  It’s always great to report news like this: a local school district (in this case, a Cassia County in Idaho) has adopted a new policy and set of guidelines to help combat cyberbullying. This is great. Of course, parents are a big key to solving this problem as well. They need to do their job in the home of 1) ...
  6 days ago

• MySpace Monday Mayhem (#18b)

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  The bottom line here is that a school district imposed punishments on girls who, during the summer, took very provocative and sexually-themed photos and put them on their MySpace pages. There was no nudity. Now, the ACLU is suing the school system on behalf of the girls saying their 1st amendment rights were violated. ...
  1 week ago

• Stephen Fry quits Twitter over “aggression and unkindness”

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 583
  Twitter seems to be having a few problems holding on to its celebrity Tweeters of late. Lily Allen and Miley Cyrus have both quit recently, and Stephen Fry may be about [...]
  1 week ago

• ‘Where You Live’ – October 31, 2009

  
  Maranda: Where You Live — Authority: 127
  Teenagers spend hours each week on the Internet and on their cellphones.  Do you know what they’re looking at online or who they are texting?  This weekend we’re exploring the digital age that our children live in and how parents can protect their kids. [See post to watch Flash video]  
  1 week ago

• Another Cyberbullying Mom

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Wow. Just wow… another over-protective parent resorts to cyberbullying a child on her daughter’s behalf. You know, cyberbullying can be solved… but we need the parents to act like parents first… Happy Friday October 28, 2009 The Cyber Bully Next Door:Mom Uses Craigslist to Exact Revenge By Amy Beth ...
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• 20 Safety Tips : for parents and kids

  
  The Mommy Perks VIP Blog — Authority: 112
  Safety Tips(Tweeted on Friday, October 30th, 2009, by Shara-Lawrence-Weiss)Please remember, these are my thoughts and opinions. You are welcome to disagree with me but you can be nice about it, eh? Tip #1: Parents (or guardians) are the #1 protector of their children. It’s our job & not the job of the ...
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• “Net Cetera”: An Outstanding New Government Online Safety Resource

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 593
  OnGuardOnline.gov is a project of a dozen federal agencies and several private child safety organizations who have collaborated to create a website which “provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect ...
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• UNH Gets $2 million for Internet Crimes Research

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  This is potentially very good news. It all depends on how they utilize the funds. I hope they don’t go to waste in more think-tank rhetoric with self-proclaimed “experts” who tell us the same things over and over, while the problem gets worse… October 27, 2009 UNH receives $2 million to combat ...
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• Garfield Joins Internet Safety Battle

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  I actually only found one story on this from the AP and it’s very short. I haven’t seen a follow-up yet, but if I do – you know I will share it here. I am a HUGE Garfield fan. The holiday specials are some of the best ones ever created, I watched the primetime specials and Saturday morning cartoon show when I ...
  1 week ago

• Appeals Court Says Swearing In Text Messages Isn’t a Crime

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 770
  A 16-year-old California boy dumped by his high school girlfriend didn’t violate a state obscenity law by using four-letter words in anguished text messages to his ex, an appellate court ruled this week. The boy, identified by his initials in the ruling, was convicted by a juvenile court judge in Chico, ...
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• Wacky Internet Predator Wednesday #65

  
  Pandora's Blog — Authority: 126
  Lots of good stories this week, so let me get right to it… A 19-year-old Oklahoma man met a 115-year-old girl on MySpace and raped her. Know that the girl consented to everything (making friends online, talking on the phone, going to meet him, and getting in the car) up the point of rape. Believe it or not, ...
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• Margery Tannenbaum Accused Of Craigslist Revenge On 9-Year-Old

  
  The Dreamin Demon — Authority: 478
  CENTRAL ISLIP, New York – We didn’t report on this story when it happened in May, although it was being covered in our forums . But her hearing was Tuesday so it is making the news again. To refresh your memory, social worker Margery Tannenbaum, 40, got in legal trouble after she got revenge on a 9-year-old ...
  1 week ago

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