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Facebook Empowers Friends to Prevent Suicide

December 13, 2011 // 0 Comments

by Larry Magid When Anne Collier and I wrote our long out-of-print book, MySpace Unraveled, we pointed out that MySpace was the largest referrer to the National Suicide [...]

How to hide your Facebook friends list

December 16, 2009 // 569 Comments

by Larry Magid Facebook last Wednesday announced new privacy settings that give users some additional control over what information they share, while taking away the ability [...]

At least Facebook’s new privacy settings make you think

December 14, 2009 // 141 Comments

Facebook last week launched some privacy settings that give users the option of targeting individual posts to specific people or groups of people. But most significant about [...]

Facebook details new privacy settings

December 14, 2009 // 28 Comments

Facebook users are about to see an unfamiliar screen when they sign on to the service–a request to configure their privacy preferences. But it’s not really a [...]

Avoiding social networking scams

November 22, 2009 // 164 Comments

by Larry Magid This post originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News More and more people are using social networking sites, including, sadly, criminals seeking to take [...]

Web 2.0 schools – something more profound is happening

July 11, 2009 // 3 Comments

by Nancy Willard This is my first post at SafeKids.com and it was generated by a question from a reporter: “I am currently working on a story about the explosion of [...]

Predator Panic a risky distraction

February 11, 2009 // 0 Comments

by Larry Magid I’ve been an Internet safety advocate since 1993 and right now I’m discouraged and angry about what’s going on in this field. I’m angry [...]

Net safety task force says predation risk exagerated

January 13, 2009 // 0 Comments

by Larry Magid A long awaited report from the Internet Safety Technical Task Force concludes that children and teens are less vulnerable to sexual predation than many have [...]

Guest commentary: Don’t stop the dialogue!

December 31, 2008 // 0 Comments

By Hemanshu Nigam It’s New Year’s Eve, and your teen is all decked out and ready for a big party. She’s got her iPhone, BlackBerry, or some other cell phone [...]