by Larry Magid When it comes to privacy and security, I’m reminded of folks who drive to the airport without their seat belt on and then worry about the plane crashing. Likewise, when we’re online, there are things we can control and things we can’t. For example, we...
by Larry Magid Several years ago, my site SafeKids.com, developed a Family Contract for Online Safety and every few months I make sure it’s up-to-date. The idea of a contract, or series of pledges, is to get everyone in the family on board as to what it means...
Thanks to my ConnectSafely.org co-director Anne Collier for her thoughtful post about cell phone tracking that concludes “most parents don’t really need software to parent.” I of course agree. What she said about tracking apps, tracks (no pun intended) what...
by David Finkelhor, Heather A. Turner & Sherry Hamby This commentary argues that it is time to make bullying less of the central concept in efforts to combat peer victimization. Bullying has been a pivotal concept in the mobilization of effort in recent years to...
This post is adapted and expanded from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 5, 2012 by Larry Magid There has been a lot of work over the past few years to combat online and offline bullying. Olweus Bullying Prevention Program has been providing...
