Raising a “Money Smart” Kid
It Takes a Village To Raise a Tech-Smart Kid
SafetyWeb’s Spring Break Tips
Generation TextBlogging»
SafetyWeb Twitter Party Transcript with 5MinutesforMom and Annie Fox #SafetyWeb
Here the full transcript of our @SafetyWeb Twitter Party hosted by Annie Fox and 5MinutesforMom last week! safetyweb: Hello everyone! Glad you’re here with us. safetyweb: We have SafetyWeb Certificates to give away. Each for a 6-month SafetyWeb subscription good for up to 2 children. Annie_Fox: Welcome everyone to our first twitter party. Tonite’s focus: [...]
Cell Phone Monitoring»
Generation Text
It’s almost impossible these days to find a teen who isn’t tethered to his or her mobile device. Peas and carrots. Milk and cookies. Now, it’s teens and texting! To add more proof of this trend, this week Online Schools published an informative new infographic highlighting the incredible frequency with which today’s teens text. According [...]
Computer Safety»
For Parents: Did You Know That Your Child Has A Digital Dossier?
Recently, we came across a very powerful, four and a half minute video about digital dossiers, produced by the Digital Natives group at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The 2008 video, created by Kanupriya Tewari, takes a unique look at our online personas and traces our digital footprints from pre-birth to [...]
Cyberbully»
A Cinematic Look at Bullying
This Friday the new film, Bully, will expand to movie theaters nationwide with a new PG-13 rating. The documentary takes a look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families. According to the film’s website, over 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced [...]
Facebook Safety»
The Online Obsession
Is it really possible to become addicted to the Internet? This question has been getting attention lately due to a recent study published in the scientific journal, PLoS ONE* focusing on this very subject. With all of us, especially kids, using the Internet more than ever before, it’s worth taking a closer look… The study [...]
GPS apps»
Cyberstalking: Spyware Allows Stalkers to Tap Into Cell Phones
You probably think that your cell phone calls are always private and secure, but you’re wrong. A quick Google search will lead you to hundreds of different types of stealth technology services available to anyone for spying purposes. These surveillance products are extremely easy to install and allow cyberstalkers to tap into any target mobile [...]
Identity Theft»
Safety Tips for Online Holiday Shopping
With just over two months left until Christmas, many people are already thinking about holiday shopping. In 2010, more than $36 billion dollars was spent in online shopping over the holiday season and this year, it’s expected billions will be spent again in online shopping. However, before parents log online and start spreading the holiday [...]
Internet Safety»
It Takes a Village To Raise a Tech-Smart Kid
As technology continues to rapidly change, how parents oversee and monitor their children’s online activities and behavior is also constantly evolving. How old a child should be before owning a phone is just scraping the surface of challenging questions moms and dads face in the new world order of technology. Looking at the big picture, [...]
Internet Safety»
Privacy: 8 New Year’s Resolutions for Protecting Your Privacy Online
Happy New Year! With 2011 off to a great start, we thought now would be the perfect time for a refresher course about basic online privacy protection. In fact, this would serve as a wonderful opportunity for parents to sit down with their children to review how we can all stay safe online. To jumpstart [...]
Internet Safety Tips»
Knowing When The Rules Have Been Broken
It’s not just parents who are taking a role in protecting kids’ privacy online, the government has its hands in it as well. Back in 2000, the Federal Trade Commission put into effect the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The COPPA rule aims to protect the privacy of children by making sure websites (and [...]
Mobile»
Ten Tips for Kids Cell Phone Safety
Can you hear me now? According to research, 22 percent of young children own a cell phone (ages 6-9), 60 percent of tweens (ages 10-14), and 84 percent of teens. Now that it’s back-to-school time, many parents make the decision to arm their kids with cell phones. Parents generally say they do so for safety [...]
Monitor Internet Activity»
Facebook Kicks Out 20,000 Underage Users Every Day
If you ever wondered whether underage tweens were ‘sneaking’ onto Facebook, despite the 13 and older ‘age restriction’, wonder no more. Facebook’s Chief Privacy advisor yesterday confirmed the social networking site kicks out over 20,000 underage users every day, and it surely does not catch everyone lying about their age. According to a study from [...]
Music & Video Sites»
Social Networks: Should Teachers “Friend” Students Online?
It’s all over the news lately. Several school districts around the country are deciding whether to instill social networking policies, as teachers and students connect online on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. After three teachers in New York City were fired for allegedly flirting with students online, the New York Post nicknamed the recent [...]
News for Parents»
Raising a “Money Smart” Kid
Experts say it’s never too early to start talking to your children about money. These days, with online resources, social media, and influences all around, kids need to be savvy about money at a very early age. Money Smart week kicks off on April 21st and is designed to help people learn how to better organize [...]
Online Hackers»
Cyberstalking: Portrait of a Facebook Stalker
Cyberstalkers are not always sexual predators and do not all look like criminals. In fact, in person- they may appear to be just like you and I, but make no mistake: cyberstalkers are driven by obsession, jealousy, manipulation, power, and a slew of other harmful characteristics. If you’re a member of Facebook, you’ve probably heard [...]
Online Reputation»
Parenting: How to Avoid Raising a Bully
Stories about tragic “bullycides” (suicides as a result of bullying) have been all over the media lately. As a result, everyone wants to know how we, as a society, can prevent bullying. There’s no denying the fact that without an instigator, bullying would cease to exist. Therefore, we want to examine how children become bullies [...]
Online Youth»
Online Reputation Management Tips for Parents of the College-Bound
Like so many things in life, getting into college has become a lot more complicated in recent years. Today it’s about more than just grades and school activities. Now you have to take your child’s online reputation into consideration. With kids spending more and more time on the internet, what they say and show on [...]
Parental Control»
SafetyWeb’s Spring Break Tips
Fun. Sun. Relaxation. Spring break is the time of year when many teens take trips. But these fun little vacations can mean extra worries for parents. Along with safety and travel concerns, parents should pay extra attention to their teen’s social networking profiles before, during and after that spring break vacation. Check out our five [...]
Photo Sharing Safety»
Facebook’s new facial recognition feature: What parents need to know
Tag, you’re it! Facebook’s photo sharing is getting a facelift. If you’ve ever uploaded a photo to your Facebook page, you’re surely familiar with “tagging” someone – notifying a friend that she’s in a pic you posted. And our kids do it all the time – using digital cameras, camcorders and cell phones — to [...]
Privacy Online»
Update: Another Change to Facebook Privacy Settings
As reported this week by CNET’s Lance Whitney, Facebook has again changed its privacy settings and reversed its decision to enable Facebook applications to suddenly access user addresses and cell numbers. In an article entitled ‘Facebook backtracks on apps grabbing address, cell number’, CNET details how Facebook changed its mind, perhaps temporarily, on allowing application [...]
Sexting»
Texting: Can you decipher these text messages?
According to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 64% of parents check their children’s cell phones for inappropriate content. Kids have caught on, and they’ve started to communicate in code. Here are just a few examples of text messages that, if discovered on a child’s phone, should concern parents. N2 2CB. WBU? Translation: [...]
Social Networking Safety»
Cyberbullying: Facebook Partners with GLAAD to End Anti-Gay Cyberbullying
Facebook has joined forces with The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in an effort to stop anti-gay cyberbullying. The announcement comes after several “bullycide” (suicide as a result of bullying) cases made national news, including the shocking Rutgers case in which freshman Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge [...]
Teenager Safety»
MTV Launches Digital Awareness App For Teens
New MTV app offers information on the dangers of sexting, cyber-bullying, and other forms of digital disrespect along with helpful solutions
Text Messages»
Mobile Poll and Mobile Monitoring Feature for Parents
SafetyWeb Mobile Monitoring is included in every SafetyWeb subscription, and shows your child’s mobile phone call and mobile text message activity. It’s never been easier to know who is calling and texting your child, and whom your child is calling and texting. Also know what times your child is using their mobile phone to call and text their friends, and be alerted if they are using their phone at inappropriate or restricted time periods.
Video Chat»
Cyberbullying: Parents and Schools Must Respond to Cyberbullying
An article in today’s The Washington Post defines cyberbullying as a result of “lack of maturity, lack of supervision, and technology.” Here is where the problem frequently lies: Teens often avoid reporting cyberbullying to their parents for fear of their computer privileges being taken away. As a result, parents simply don’t hear about these potentially [...]
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