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Dec. 22
Social sites topped 2006 searches ; Who is Time's 'you'?; Social networking-plus; MySpace more mobile; Child investment advisers; Worldwide social Web; Videogames: Hazardous to privacy?... 20-something on cell socializing; Mobile-y social teens; Self-expression tsunami; Va. on sex offenders; FTC on stealth ads; 'Left Behind' game, site; Patch it!; Views on Vista; Game ratings; Police on social Web; UK kids' tune-swapping.... Parenting media-sharers; Online-child-protection law; MySpace safety news; Virtual concert; Eating-disorder 'ed'; Chaucer in MySpace?; Virtual community, real engagement; 'Cell-veillance'; Models or exploited kids?; The upward mobile.... Web picture less foggy; Videogames' report card; Videogame effects; Parents on Net vs. TV; On/offline student brawl; Smartphone hotcakes; Marketing on Web 2.0; 'Grey goo'; Mobile trespassing?; Socially mobile with Yahoo.... Schools' SN dilemma - block or educate?; 'Second Life,' 2nd campus?; Virtual worlds on phones; Phone as tracking device; Shopping season gift lists; U. presidents blog; Skyrock's social ambitions; SN burn-out?... Participation - key opp for kids; COPA revisited; Cellphone socializing; 'ReputationDefender.com'; Game console wars; Youth pastors, rabbis on MySpace; Social site search; US joins global police unit; 'Net addiction'; Chatting on Orkut.... Students lost in irrelevance?; Social Web growth unabated; Video sites multiplying; Parenting & profile deletion; 'The Overconnecteds'?; MS's Zune; Movies on Xbox 360; 'Music detective' tech; Web 2.0; Bargain laptops; 'Online mobs'.... GottaFlirt.com not for teens; YouTube's legalization?; Messy time for music; Critical thinking; Google's wiki; Social Web research; Cellphones 'essential'; Social scrapbooking; Ads on social Web; Gambling ban questioned.... Parenting social networkers; Major funding for social-media research; Big social sites maturing?; Free speech and student blogging; Child-porn fight update; Game ratings debate; Web 2.0 in class; Mobile SN; Dicey video-sharing.... Student hit hard by Web 'fame'; Net addiction study; 'Bully' not so threatening?; Social-networking backlash?; Virtual parenting; More trouble for Orkut; Social networking in the car; India's online social scene.... DC scandal-'Teachable moment'; Contact with strangers; $11m to libel victim; Powerful change agents?; Google + YouTube; Embellishing profiles; Latest patches; Socializing everywhere; Videogame war; Newest digital divide.... Readers on parenting social networkers; Who's social networking?; Explicit h.s. gossip; AOL's free ride; Malware on MySpace; 'Defriending'; Social sites for teens; Anti-gambling law; Student free speech; School fight videos.... Online hangouts - editorial; The friending part of MySpace; Principal sues MySpacers; Multitasking families; A 1st for videogame safety; Latest on game addiction; Latest on Web video viewing; IM worm 'epidemic'; New SN browser.... A user writes: Bolt2.com not for kids; SN's impact; Facebook courted; Early warning system?; Key PC security advice; Over-exposed pranks, bad results; Popular kid YouTube; Google's 'precedent'; UK kids on phones; E-school in demand.... Social sites & rabbits; UK heads up; Teen YouTube 'star' quits; eDonkey bites dust; Facebook opens up; Limited exposure pls; Home-media update; Watch our for wi-fi; UK SN data; SN in Japan; SN copyright issues; Out-sourcing essays.... Monitoring MySpacers: Part 2; Facebook flap; FTC fines Xanga; MySpace's mini music stores; 'Storytexting' on phones; Woman charged in teen's assault; Not-so-virtual ads; Social networking everywhere; Homework helpers; Wikis.... Monitoring MySpacers: Part 1; Digital music & the law; Social networking & suicide; Free books online; La. game law nixed; Of cheats & other game news; Create-your-own social network.... A mom writes - My own MySpace; Cyberbullying laws?; Pedophiles' alternate realities; Apple's recall; Networking & back-to-school; Sony & Grouper mash it up; Views on SN; Young Iraqis' texting; Teens' new favorite channel?... Unsupervised online teens & other myths - research; Teen 'predators'; Anybody outing anyone...; 'Minime's' at Cyworld; Social Web's new headache; Virtual worlds, real crimes; Good gaming; Dell laptops recall; For game 'auteurs'.... Major study on online teens; Web searches personal; Homeland Security on PC security; Google helps searchers; Social media players; MySpace & Google; 1 connected girl; Universities on SN; 'Bully' the game; SN investigations What can happen to teen online videos?; *Self*-verification; Child verification?; DOPA 'ill-conceived'; Move over, MySpace?; MySpace tips from teen; New-style ads on SN; AOL & CNN, video hosts; MN game law deleted.... Today's 'cave painters'; House passes DOPA; Law against deceptive sex sites; New social networks; Kazaa legalizes; Food ads & online kids; Critical thinking needed; Parents' tour of social networks; iPod's competition?; Teen videogame tutors.... Verifying online kids' ages; Web's 'storytellers'; Candy+Coke=hot Web video; Popular YouTubers; A look at sex-offender bans; Child-porn study; Why so much porn online; Suit against mom dropped; Parents' FAQ; Malware on MySpace.... Views on social networks aired on Capitol Hill; MySpace, top site; Smart phones & kids; Windows patches; Parents' video concerns; Pop-ups with Web videos; Employers & 'digital dirt'; Web 2.0 safety campaign; House passes gambling bill.... SN for the greater good; UK gov't on social networks; Risky reinforcement online; Life of an ID thief; What's happened to music?; Microsoft's MP3 player; Safer browsing; Eefoof pays users; 'Try to keep a cool head'; Online gambling.... Over-exposure; Pentagon 'social networking'; Net-safety laws mulled; LunarStorm; Teens mug adult MySpacer; BGCA's Net savvy; ISPs help child-porn fight; Protect kids from themselves?; SN keeps morphing; P2P update.... MySpace's privacy upgrades; Teen sues MySpace; Social activism networking; 'Personal boundaries' online; 'Spear phishers' in SN; Summer camps' SN fears; Free filters in Oz; La. Game law on hold.... Social-networking for kids 9-14!; Fresh social-Web data; Reputations at risk; Young & uber-connected; Teens & terrorist charges; RIAA might sue less; New patches; Gaming news; MySpaceMail, not email; Understanding emo.... Parent poll; Teen lured to Mideast; Teen texters; Cyberbullying in SN; Gangs in SN; MN's twist on game law; Parents' overexposure?; YouTube's upgrade; Phishers fake MySpace; Gamermaker's settlement; PC security wars; AllofMP3.... 'Video-snacking'; Users' Web; Police on MySpace; SN with a purpose; Wrong kind of support; UK porn-use study; Martha's social-networking; Your virtual tunes; Family-networking; Kids as pirates?; WindowsOneCare launched.... District says students accountable; Social-networkers' protests; Boston-area teen arrested; Teen MySpace hackers; Word to the wise MySpacer; Spyware worse; Game law update; Games getting serious; Porn on dot-mobi; MySpace's musicians.... How social influencing works; 'Predator panic'; Online-socializing data; Risky Web search; Schools & SN; Beyond MySpace?!; Child-porn war's new front; Net's impact on teens; France's teen tech lobbyist; Kids too plugged in?.... 'Dollhouses' and other digital-game news from E3; Online teen tethered; Federal SN law proposed; The new Netiquette; Female screennames riskier; MySpace passé?; Mobile uploads; Safe search for kids; More Mac attacks?... Law-enforcement view on kids' online privacy; Students' free speech online; 99-cent tunes; Social-networking untethered; Virtual-to-real cash; AOL's social-network site; The wrong kind of support; Kids as co-marketers.... Protecting teen reputations; Gaming's hot news; International S-N flap; Tougher child-porn law?; Vigilantism & privacy; S-N at the BBC & MS; S-N 'traffic jams'; MyDeathSpace.com; Lingo of our digital lives; 'Geek heaven'.... Young cellphone junkies; Social bookmarking; Better spyware protection; Christian social-networking; Circumventing teens; Web by phone; Kid-tracking phone.... MySpace teen-safety tour; Teens in child-porn case; 3 new patches; Virtual pedophilia in Net 'world'; Child-porn law; Teen self-expression; Smart mom's process; Free ABC TV; Filters, laws, parenting?; Brazilian social-networking.... Teen social-networking 'sting'; Webcams' darkside; MI videogame law killed; Tougher to buy 'M' games; YouTube the next MySpace?; Disney phone; Phone with sex-offender alerts; Cellphone-use study; Teens arrested for video.... State do-not-email laws - no help; iPod's help for ears; 6,000 students, 6,000 hackers?; Student's school-filter fix; Webcams flying off shelves; Cyberbullying study; Bebo craze in UK; Heavy's for guys.... Web 2.0 and parents; Kids too wired?; Teens 'crave' contact with parents; Tech & humanity; France & 'digital freedom of choice'; Social-networking, Korean-style; Videogames' 'true impact'; Another Apple patch; Blogs, wikis at school.... Teen social-networking news; New help in fighting child porn; 'Paid for homemade'; Teens prefer Net; Mobile porn's fast growth; New earbud-risk study; Mac & PC patches; 'Bully' game protested; PS3's delay; E-poker; 'Cybersmears'.... Online sex & child protection - latest research; Game chat pedophile case; Teen blogging & politics; Auteurs at your house?; Online dating study; More ear-risk news;'Spying' on IM-ers?; Parents on MySpace; Bolt.com's relaunch.... Site for young PC-security fixers; The new PC security risk; Arrests involving blogging; Local band's national deal; 'Big brother' factor; Critical thinkers needed!; Everywhere parental controls; Pick-'n'-choose channels; Schools & MySpace.... Blogging's upside, downside - study; MySpace to get safer; Teens & guns in news; The Web 'hang-out' - study; Apples' security flaws; 14-year-old cyberstalker; Kid-published content; AOL 'AIM-ing' at MySpace.... Tech-savvy parents write; Playboy in MySpace; Banner year for online kids; Back to porn threat; New patches; Little early adopters; Piracy & iPods; Parents, teachers agree; IM on phones; Disney-on-demand; Not-so-virtual networking.... Parents on kids' privacy; MySpace's 13.5 million teens; Texting's power; Teens getting Tagged(.com); Blogs & rabbits; Anti-child-porn update, UK; PC smarts & school; Tweens' impact on music world; Phone filter flaw.... Today's MySpace horror story - 'Tipping point'?; Kids as ID-theft targets; Parents playing games; iPod lawsuit; Record label helps family; 'Sex, boys & videogames'; Texting for love; Real life, virtual world; UK P2P crackdown.... A mom on daughters' blogs; Other teen blog content; The story on filters; Net cements ties; Young hacker pleads guilty; Class wikis, podcasts; Videogame pluses, minuses; Not just Net safety; MySpace UK; iPods & privacy.... Blogging gone bad - police officer's story; COPA revisited; Teen exploited in game chat; Schools take anti-blog action; Porn 'revolution' & teens; Portable poker; School news podcast; P2P protections; AOL patch; Teen tech expectations.... 18-year-old blogger on blogging; Everywhere TV; iTunes issues; For music-loving families; Students catch sex offender; MS to debug software; The thing about texting; iPod-compatible jeans; Whither childhood?... Teen's-eye-view of tech in '06; iPods & ears; PC patch confusion; 'Convergence' in our homes; Downloads up, CDs down; Gaming huge in '06; Parents pay for school laptops?; Latest on kid phones; The appeal of text to teens.... The Net Family Newsletter is produced weekly by editor and parent Anne Collier. 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