A Parents’ Guide to Facebook (PDF) is a  booklet and online resource that  provides parents with the the tools they need to help their teens optimize privacy and [...]

A lot has been written lately about and cyberbullying and bullying in general. And, like every writer who covers this subject, my colleagues at ConnectSafely.org and I have [...]

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that many of the most popular Facebook application developers, including Zynga Game Network whose apps include FarmVille, Texas [...]

by Larry Magid This article first appeared on CNET News.com Last week, Facebook announced its new Groups feature, which is designed to limit some of your communications to a [...]

Common Sense Media’s “Protect Our Privacy – Protect Our Kids” campaign Common Sense Media on Friday announced the results of a survey showing that [...]

by Larry Magid This post first appeared on CNET News.com There has been a lot of concern about young people posting too much information about themselves online, but a study [...]

by Larry Magid This post originally appeared on CNET News.com 18 year-old Tyler Clementi took his own life after his roomate aledgedly live streamed his kissing another man [...]

A Guest Editorial By Warren Blumenfeld Warren Blumenfeld (Credit: Iowa State University) Friends described Tyler Clementi as a gentle, kind, and sensitive person who was an [...]

55% of malware are Trojans (Source: Panda Labs) Panda Labs 3rd Quarter 2010 threat report (PDF) found that 95% of all email is spam.  It also said that Trojans constituted [...]

by Larry Magid (this article was originally posted in November, 2011 but updated in May, 2013) A lot of people have been talking about “digital citizenship” [...]