The FBI has released a simple iPhone app that can store information about your children and send it to authorities in the unlikely event they go missing. Parents fill out [...]

A controversial new law signed by Missouri’s governor would make it a crime for a teacher to have an “exclusive” conversation with a current or former [...]

You’ve no doubt heard about Britain’s phone hacking scandal that brought down the 168-year-old News of the World tabloid and led to the arrest of its former [...]

Like any civilized person, I was shocked, disgusted and pained by the news that the dismembered remains of Leiby Kletzky, an 8-year-old from Brooklyn, were found in a [...]

As I say in my recent blog post over at CNET, a new web service enables families to stay in touch, even with kids who are too young (under 13) to be on Facebook. Unlike some [...]

For the past week, I’ve been playing around with Google+, a new social networking service that competes with both Facebook and Google. The service is in test mode at [...]

After returning from Facebook headquarters to hear Mark Zuckerberg make his “awesome” announcement, I had a chance to try out the new Facebook video chat which is [...]

It’s too early to know how it will affect kids and families, but Google is launching a new social networking service to compete with Facebook. Google has tried its hand [...]

Although there are plenty of tools that can be used to try to control or monitor what your kids are doing online, the best approach for most parents is that oldest of tools [...]

by Larry Magid Contrary to what some people might think, using social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn actually correlates with being more social in the real world. [...]