Happy Friday, everyone! And happy Labor Day in advance. I have to admit, I feel extremely fortunate to have a career that I'm passionate about. I look forward to coming into the office every day, and I look forward to meeting new people who feel the same way. But I know that in today's world, it's a rare thing to LOVE your job. And for Jenny, it seems that this was exactly the case.
Continue reading "An Interesting Way to Quit Your Job" »
There’s no doubt that the heartbreaking story of Phoebe
Prince startled parents all around the country.
As people read magazines and watched the news, they learned just how
severe cyberbullying can be—and unfortunately for Phoebe Prince, her story
became the mainstream example.
Because cyberbullying is such an important issue to tackle, I’ve
dedicated an entire section of my blog to covering it from many difference
angles. I’ve described to you in detail what cyberbullying
is and what you can do to lessen the chances
of it happening to your own children. Interestingly
enough, a recent article in Scientific
American pointed out that there’s yet another layer to cyberbullying—one
that deals with the authoritativeness of parents and how it can possibly
determine the way a child handles cyberbullying both mentally and physically.
Continue reading "The Direct Relationship between Parenting and Cyberbullying" »
After reading my first post on this topic, many of my
friends on Facebook came forward and asked me what they can do with their
account settings to protect themselves and their children. In this blog-post sequel, I will try to
provide parents with somewhat of a solution, as well as address a few more
concerns that I have with Facebook’s new GPS application, Places.
Continue reading "Facebook Places – How to turn it off " »
The CEO of Face.com—the company behind the facial
recognition software that I discussed in yesterday's
blog post—responded to my post with a comment. Here’s what he had to say:
Continue reading "A Response from the CEO of Face.com – And My Questions for Him " »
Once in a while, I come across a news article that leads me
to believe that things may be getting better in the world of online
privacy. I’ve read and blogged about
conferences where lawmakers and website CEOs have come together to discuss
outdated privacy laws, and ways to amend them.
I’ve also shared with you tools created by Internet-safety advocacy
groups or businesses that help protect your children from malicious content on
the Internet. But when I come across
articles like
this, I can’t help but feel as though an optimistic future for online
privacy, particularly for our children, is being pushed further beyond our
grasp.
Continue reading "Facial Recognition Tech May Pose Some Serious Threats to Online Privacy" »
I was browsing Linda Criddle’s Online Safety blog when I came across this
interesting tool. It’s a Digital Privacy Quiz created by the
ACLU.
Essentially what the quiz does is show you the impact you have on your
privacy when you use every-day digital technologies like email, social
networks, or even your cell phone.
Continue reading "How Risky Is Your Digital Behavior?" »
Letting our guard down is the last thing we want to do when
it comes to searching around on the Internet.
Whether we’re searching for entertainment like fashion or music, or
something more serious like answers to health questions that we may have; it’s always
a crapshoot as to what we’ll come across in our search results—especially if we
don’t take full advantage of safe-search settings like the one you’ll find in
Google.
Continue reading "The Internet's Most Precarious Celebrities" »
Possibly feeling out of the loop when it comes to GPS
locating features like the one you’ll find in the 2 million-member-social-networking
site, Foursquare, Facebook has officially released their version of the
service, called Places. The feature is
available to Facebook users in the U.S., and just like Foursquare, Places
allows users to post their exact location based on their cell phone’s GPS.
Continue reading "Facebook Places – A Great Tool or A Stalker’s Best Friend?" »