NetFamilyNews.orgHere’s one example of the opportunities for social-Web safety as our field emerges from predator panic to focus on research-based strategies: how to help self-injuring teens. I was prompted to write about this by an article headlined “Self-injury on the rise among young people” in the Los Angeles Times. Cutting and embedding (embedding objects like [...]
The focus of Forbes’s profile of MyYearbook.com is how it can monetize this “freewheeling chatfest,” I guess after it burns through the $13 million round of venture capital it recently received. But it’s the lead of the article that I found arresting: Forbes writer Emily Schmall tells of a 14-year-old MyYearbook user’s story of self-mutilation [...]
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