We’re hearing more and more about the teenage, queen-bee-wannabe kind, but adults are certainly not immune to cyberbullying – not on the user-driven Web, where defamation can happen to anybody, whether a parent or a public figure. The Washington Post describes some particularly tough examples and the reputation-management providers they’ve turned to. “Charging anything from a few dollars to … [Read more...] about Grown up cyberbullying & spin control
Risk & Safety
Ethics & media literacy: Facebook in their yearbooks
Students at a Washington, D.C.-area high school found some of their Facebook photos published in their school’s yearbook, the Washington Post reports. There were pictures of everything from tailgate-party drinking to cellphone portraits to silly antics among friends. “Desperate and crunched for time, yearbook staffers resorted to filling pages with photographs downloaded from student Facebook … [Read more...] about Ethics & media literacy: Facebook in their yearbooks
Cyberethics training needed
“She was a little big for her age, her face still chubby and prepubescent,” writes ZooeysRoom.com’s Kaley Noonen in Edutopia.org. “She pulled me aside after the cyberbullying workshop I'd just given to a room full of 20 middle school girls. She looked as though she were hiding something. ‘Would you help me get my MySpace page shut down?’ she asked.” The girl explained to Kaley that an ex-friend … [Read more...] about Cyberethics training needed
Dad-created social site
Hmmm. I hope the Santa Cruz Sentinel does a followup story on this, because it’ll be interesting to see if a parent-created, parent-monitored site for teens – even with all the desirable features – will develop significant teen participation. Invitation-only Santa Cruz Teen Space – with “instant messaging, chat, online radio, Yahoo! videos, blogs, polls, games and event listings” – was created by … [Read more...] about Dad-created social site
Social sites focused on porn
I hope parents who are trying to keep their kids off MySpace and YouTube know about user-produced social sites that specialize in pornography, because they’re reportedly proliferating. One of the more disturbing things about them is the content that’s uploaded without the video subjects’ permission. This takes social-networking reputation concerns to an extreme. “There are over 250 ex-girlfriends … [Read more...] about Social sites focused on porn