It's worth checking out this story to see what family feuds look like in the age of social networking.  In Michigan, seven-year-old Kathleen Edward is dying of Huntington's disease, the very same illness that claimed the life of her mother.  In order to settle some long-standing feud with her neighbors, ….read more

ave we ever told you about the dangers of "sexting?"  No, you say?  Well, then, listen very closely…..come closer……good: NEVER EVER SHOULD YOU SHARE INTIMATE PICTURES OF YOURSELF WITH ANYBODY.And one more time in bold for good measure:  NEVER EVER SHOULD YOU SHARE INTIMATE PICTURES OF YOURSELF WITH ANYBODY. (And, if you can help it, you should never even TAKE….read more

Every parent should look at what happened to Karen Owen from Duke University.Upon graduating, Karen thought it would be funny to take inventory of all of the men she slept with during her four years at Duke.  She framed her exploits as a mock research project in "horizontal studies" - and submitted it to a small group of friends in a 42-page….read more

Officer Steve DeWarns is a police officer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 19 years of experience.  His expertise is Online Child Exploitation Investigations.  Officer DeWarns is the founder of Internet Child Safety. For the past 10 years, Officer DeWarns has dedicated himself to teaching online safety to parents and children.  He has worked with the F.B.I.'s….read more

On October 6, Facebook announced a series of changes to its platform. Chief among these is the roll-out of Facebook Groups which will allow users to create smaller, invite-only groups within their larger Facebook network with which to share photos and status updates.  So, what does this mean for parents and kids? At….read more

Every parent should read this heartbreaking story about four suicides that occurred at one Ohio school.  In the course of just a few years, four teenagers took their lives after being mercilessly bullied by their schoolmates.  In the case of Sladjana Vidovic, even death did not afford her peace: the very….read more

Following the tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi on September 22 (link to prior post), there has been an increased push to get schools to teach kids to be better citizens on the web - or "netizens" as it were.  As noted in yesterday's NPR article, researchers believe that schools have found themselves on the other side….read more

Jodee is one of the nation's pre-eminent authorities on school bullying. She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, Please Stop Laughing At Me…One Woman's Inspirational Story. Jodee has appeared in USA Today, Newsweek, CNN, NBC, FOX and hundreds of other outlets both nationally and internationally. For more information on Jodee or to contact her directly, visit www.jodeeblanco.com. ….read more

You may have seen the exciting news today.  SocialShield recently received $10 million in funding  from Venrock Partners and U.S. Venture Partners to further empower parents to defender their kids against cyberbullying, over-sharing, and sexual predators.  This investment will help the company build out new features such as our Friends Engine™ which runs every….read more

By now you will have heard of the tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi, a first-year student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge on September 22nd after his roommate secretly filmed him having an intimate encounter with another man and then Tweeting about it.  The fact that everybody involved in this tragic incident….read more