http://www.safeteens.com Internet safety for teens Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:19:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.safeteens.com/2011/08/06/resources-for-youth-in-crisis/ http://www.safeteens.com/2011/08/06/resources-for-youth-in-crisis/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:07:55 +0000 larrymagid http://www.safeteens.com/?p=613 Click here for a resource list for youth in crisis and their care givers.

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Parents’ Guide to Facebook 2012 Edition Now Available - ConnectSafely.org, the non-profit organization where I serve as co-director along with Anne Collier, has just released A Parents Guide to Facebook (PDF), a free 36-page downloadable guide to help parents and their kids get the most from the world’s largest social networking service. The all-new guide shows how to take advantage of the service’s safety features [...]

Google+ Now Open for Teens, With Extra Safety Precautions - When Google launched Google+ in June, 2010, it was for adults only. Now it’s open to anyone 13 or older.  The reason Google kept teens off the service at first is not because the social network was ever about what we euphemistically call “adult content,” but because Google wanted to take extra time to get it right before opening [...]

5-Ways To Protect Yourself If You Were Zapped by Zappos Breach - As you may have heard, Zappos announced that it experienced a data breach on Sunday. In an email to customers, the online shoe and clothing retailer that’s owned by Amazon said “there may have been illegal and unauthorized access to some of your customer account information on Zappos.com.” Comprised data includes: your name e-mail address billing and shipping addresses phone number the [...]

So your kid is looking at porn. Now what? - by Larry Magid Let’s be honest. Many children — especially post-pubescent boys — are interested in what we commonly call “porn.” You might not like the idea that some kids are looking at these images, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a pretty common occurrence. This column isn’t about young children or children who [...]

Rise in social media correlates with safer experiences for teens - Here’s a shocker for some. By two important measures, teens are safer online now than they were before the advent of social media. A new report, “Trends in Youth Internet Victimization: Findings From Three Youth Internet Safety Surveys 2000 –2010,” (PDF) from the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) found a decline in 2010 of both unwanted sexual [...]

SafeKids.com adds Online Safety FAQ - Excuse me for posting about a post. I know it seems strange but I added this FAQ over the weekend and it’s just now getting featured. Because of the way WordPress works it’s down in the stack so a bit harder to find. So, if you haven’t aready done so, please check out our new: [...]

Facebook Empowers Friends to Prevent Suicide - by Larry Magid When Anne Collier and I wrote our long out-of-print book,  MySpace Unraveled, we pointed out that MySpace was the largest referrer to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. We noted that kids were alive because of the way friends had reached out to save their friends. Facebook, of course, took MySpace’s place in that [...]

Can YouTube for Schools Usher Education into the 21st Century? - This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 12, 2011 by Larry Magid Google has launched a YouTube for Schools service to make educationally relevant videos available for use in school. It’s a great idea, but for it to actually be used in schools, many districts around the country will have to [...]

Online Safety FAQ - by Larry Magid Here are some common concerns that parents have about their kids’ use of technology. Is my child at risk from online predators? Although it can happen, the risk of a child or teen being harmed by someone they met on the Internet is very low. There has been widespread misunderstanding of a 2005 [...]

Will XXX Domains Help Parents Block Porn? - In an audio podcast interview for CBS News and CNET, ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley, the main behind the XXX domains, acknowledged that XXX domains, along with creative searching, will help seekers of adult content find what they’re looking for.  And to his company’s credit, he said that “for people wanting to look for adult content, they can go to XXX sites with a little [...]

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