Remember Formspring.me? Three years ago some terrible trolling that reportedly involved teens in New Jersey made the site, which announced it was shutting down* last month, a national news story in the US. Teens' viral adoption of Formspring and its format (ask a question, get an anonymous answer) reportedly took the site by surprise. Disturbing news coverage and letters sent home by school … [Read more...] about Social cruelty on Ask.fm & the whack-a-mole tendency
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A fresh look at ‘Netiquette’
Words like "manners" and "etiquette" usually make kids' eyeballs roll. So it's important – as we all move thousands of years of social-norms and manners development into our new media environment together – that we keep our children in the conversation by approaching "Netiquette" logically and our kids the avid social-media users respectfully. Like Buck, who has as much to say about human … [Read more...] about A fresh look at ‘Netiquette’