We don’t call it “pencil bullying” when someone uses a wooden stick with lead inside to write someone a threatening note. When a person shakes her fist in [...]

by Stephen Balkam CEO, Family Online Safety Institute What has unfolded first in Tunisia and now in Egypt is an early harbinger of a new kind of web-based activism and [...]

(Credit: JasonTromm's photostream via flickr Creative Commons) “Geek in Training” (Credit: JasonTromm’s photostream via flickr Creative Commons) by [...]

Although Facebook has temporarily suspended a controversial plan to provide users’ home addresses and cell phone numbers to third party application developers, [...]

by Larry Magid I don’t know what motivated the young man who allegedly murdered several people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords but whether or not the [...]

by Larry Magid Imagine walking into a shopping mall and having a person follow you around, writing down every window you peer into and taking notes on each item of [...]

Facebook will employ face recognition software to make tagging easier (Credit: Facebook) Just a few hours after Time magazine anointed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg [...]

If anyone from my local police department’s dispatch center is reading this, please accept my apologies. I called 911 by mistake recently as I was recording my CBS News [...]

By Larry Magid Now that “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” are history, maybe it’s time to start thinking about a new day, “Compassionate [...]

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 [...]