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So-Called Facebook “Panic Button” Is About Engagement, Not Panic

After months of negotiations, Facebook has reached an agreement with the U.K’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre that will result in a new safety application aimed at British 13-18 year olds. CEOP, the UK government’s police agency responsible for protecting children against sexual exploitation, had been pressuring Facebook to install what many in the [...] read more 

Study has good news about kids online behavior

by Larry Magid (this article first appeared on News.com) The headline of the press pitch I received a few days ago read “McAfee to release shocking findings of teen’s online behavior,” but the actual data from the study, “Secret Life of Teens,” are far from shocking. McAfee’s study (PDF) is actually a reassuring portrait of how [...] read more 

Report to Congress: Media literacy, not fear, can protect youth online

Final report of the Online Safety Technology Working Group Youth Safety on a Living Internet (PDF), the final report by the Online Safety Technology Working Group (OSTWG), found that the best way to assure youth safety on the Internet “points to the growing importance of online citizenship and media-literacy education, in addition to what has [...] read more 

Facebook’s New Simplified Privacy Settings

This 5:20 video shows how to configure Facebook’s new simplified privacy settings. Including: Using the new one-page simplified privacy controls, limiting what the world can see about you, opting-out of Instant Personalization and an introduction to customizing privacy settings.  Also see the more advanced video Facebook’s Granular Privacy Controls:  Who Can See What. read more