Tag Archives: safety

Summer Cyber Safety Made Simple

Because kids are not in school during the summer, they have more time to use the computer.  Consequently, you need to make sure your kids’ summertime cyber experiences are positive. To help you, we’ve created a simple acronym as a guidepost for steps you can take and tactics you can implement to protect your children …

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Facebook, Foursquare and Geolocation, OH MY!

Reports out today suggest that Facebook may have partnered with Localeze, a local search provider that provides Twitter’s “places” directory, to debut a new geolocation “check-in” feature in the next couple of weeks. Geolocation (in brief): Geolocation provides the real-world geographic location of an object (like a cell phone or other Internet-connected device).  So a program …

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Pornography and Gaming: The New “Twofer”

Everyone loves a good deal.  Just last week, I was trying to do a better job of sticking to my grocery list while in Whole Foods when I passed one of the store’s lovely sample stations—this one offered chips and dip.  The dip was good, but I wasn’t planning on adding it to my cart …

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Not Just Fun and Games

When I was growing up in an urban setting in St. Louis, I spent my afternoons exploring the alleys behind our home and crossing vast concrete expanses on my “horse”—a banana-seat Schwinn.  On the weekends, my dad would take me to Forest Park and, in the summertime, I was privileged to spend time fishing, biking …

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Alicia’s Story

Last week we launched our national Internet Safety 101SM Program. The press event (which you can watch in full on Ustream) featured footage from the DVD teaching series and compelling testimony from some of those included throughout our program. Today, I am posting an excerpt from Alicia Kozakiewicz, a survivor of a sexual predator. At …

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Pornography: Counterfeit Love

Coming off of Valentine’s Day, a day filled with so much talk about love, relationships and sex, we thought it would be appropriate to mention one of the primary dangers children encounter online: pornography.  Studies have indicated that as many as seven out of ten kids accidentally encounter pornography online, and almost 80 percent of …

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Don’t Forget the Other Screen

The “mobile Internet” allows instant communication to an unlimited number of individuals and instant access to all of the powerful resources of the web.  Despite the many benefits of this mobile technology, kids have easy access to pornography and other harmful content; predators and cyberbullies can access kids 24 hours a day, seven days a …

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