A lot has been written about “Facebook addiction.” Indeed some press coverage of a recent study from the University of Chicago suggests that “Facebook and Twitter [...]

Everyone has a story to tell about safe and respectful use of technology, and those who tell it via video could win a $10,000 prize from Internet security company Trend [...]

Talk by Larry Magid, co-director of ConnectSafely.org at Russia’s Safer Internet Day – Moscow, February 6, 2012 It is a great pleasure to be here.  Even though I grew up [...]

This is one of Larry Magid’s panel presentations at Russia’s Safer Internet Day conference in Moscow on February 6th.  He also gave a plenary talk earlier in the [...]

Pseudoscience sculpture by Mihail Chemiakin (Photo by Larry Magid) There’s an amazing group of sculptures in a park near the Kremlin in Moscow, called “Children [...]

When Google launched Google+ in June, 2010, it was for adults only. Now it’s open to anyone 13 or older.  The reason Google kept teens off the service at first is not [...]

As you may have heard, Zappos announced that it experienced a data breach on Sunday. In an email to customers, the online shoe and clothing retailer that’s owned by [...]

Here’s a shocker for some. By two important measures, teens are safer online now than they were before the advent of social media. A new report, “Trends in Youth [...]