When discussing with young people the perils and perks of online activities, it’s sometimes easy to overlook everyone in the equation. Take, for instance, the familiar caution not to post explicit or revealing photos online, or even to avoid sending them on handheld devices to that one intimate person in your life. Dire warnings range [...]

This third, loosely-related post will concentrate primarily on the New York Times and its excellent education-focused series on cyberbullying. Some of the impetus for the Times coverage appears to have been the tragic suicide of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince which, while occurring largely in a school environment, also involved elements of cyberbullying (texting and websites are [...]

This story needs a little unravelling, or demystifying, since most reports tend to assume we know the background. What is interesting is how many intriguing aspects of the wider issue it raises. So. Where to begin… A 15-year-old girl from Halifax, Nova Scotia, discovered that someone had created a fake Facebook profile — complete with [...]

On the day that Facebook announces new privacy settings amid almost instantaneous Web-wide reactions, we wanted to go over, in one all-encompassing post, the issues that led us to this point. The thing is, there was already a notorious precedent, and the world’s foremost social networking site had been collecting plenty of negative press even [...]