Videoing Friends Without their Knowledge is Rude; It May Also be. Noticed - College Applicants Hide Behind Facebook Aliases - NYTi. Facebook rejects suggested 'Panic Button' for pages | Safe and S. Commentary Facebook on Tuesday launched a so-called Safety Center as a worldwide resource for parents, teens, law enforcement, educators, and the general public, but it's taking safety a step further in the U.K. In addition to the global safety page, Facebook has developed more resources specifically for members in the United Kingdom, where it has been under pressure from Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) to include a clearly visible "panic button" on every page.
Facebook has agreed to redesign its report abuse system for U.K. members but hasn't agreed to a "panic button" that links directly to CEOP. In a statement on its Web site, CEOP says, "We believe that without the deterrence provided by direct visible access to the CEOP button on each and every page, children will not be appropriately empowered, parents cannot be reassured, and the offender will not be deterred. "
Social Media Parenting: Raising the Digital Generation. Who are your kids friending on Facebook? What are they really texting to their classmates? How much online time is too much? Too often, parents who are misinformed about the social web (willfully or otherwise) will shut their kids out of it completely, only to find they are logging in anyway. If you're not taking an active role in your child's online life, you may be missing important opportunities to ensure they are on the path toward "digital citizenship," and protected from inappropriate content and people. To help shrink the tech-culture divide between parents and their kids, we sought advice from the experts, who draw not only from their own research, but their family experiences as well.
Keep reading for some valuable wisdom on raising the first fully digital generation. Take an Active Role, and Do Your Homework For kids, social media can no longer be dismissed as a time-waster or distraction. "Parents can't just decide to keep their kids at a distance from all of this. Privacy Reboot Needed. I’m sitting in a talk listening to Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare (that’s a photo of Dennis during the talk above). I’m sure you’ve heard of Foursquare, but with it we check in. In the building there are 101 other people checked in. Keep in mind this is NOT New York.
It is NOT London. It is NOT San Francisco. It is freaking Omaha, Nebraska! On stage Crowley is explaining where Foursquare came from. People ask me why I friend everyone on Foursquare (I have more than 7,000 friends, all added manaually). This sounds like the worst thing for privacy ever, right? It is. But I find that we’re also finding out a new construct of what privacy means. I really love danah boyd’s thoughts on radical transparency. But yesterday Gary Vaynerchuk said you will check in if you get free beer. People are already checking in before the free beer has arrived. And that gets to the heart of our new privacy construct: we will share our privacy +if+ we get something in return.
So, where do we go now? 1. Apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” ( At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year. I was more accurate than my wildest dreams. For the last month, I’ve watched as conversations about privacy went from being the topic of the tech elite to a conversation that’s pervasive. The press coverage is overwhelming – filled with infographics and a concerted effort by journalists to make sense of and communicate what seems to be a moving target. I commend them for doing so. My SXSW used a bunch of different case studies but folks focused on two: Google and Facebook. As most of you know, Facebook has been struggling to explain its privacy-related decisions for the last month while simultaneously dealing with frightening security issues.
Amidst all of what’s going on, everyone is anxiously awaiting David Kirkpatrick’s soon-to-be-released “The Facebook Effect.” which basically outlines the early days of the company.
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