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Significant safety changes at Ask.fm

March 15, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

Though Americans represent the 2nd-biggest population on Latvia-based social media site Ask.fm, they also represent only 10% of the activity on the site. But all 105+ million users will benefit from new safety measures the service has put in place, one of them being a new Safety Center, which includes a page with a clear description of how the site works. Based on recommendations from a … [Read more...] about Significant safety changes at Ask.fm

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Annie Mullens, anonymity, ask.fm, Social Media

Whisper’s popularity no longer a secret

January 27, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

It's being said that the preference pendulum in social media culture is swinging back from transparency (as in Facebook) to anonymity (as in Whisper). And the growing popularity of the Whisper app – where users' posts are Internet meme-style photos overlaid with text (the app makes posting easy by offering up photos it "thinks" match your text, and you get to pick one). People can respond by … [Read more...] about Whisper’s popularity no longer a secret

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: anonymity, ask.fm, Internet safety, online safety, Snapchat, Social Media, Whisper

UK’s teen suicide tragedy: Problems, solutions

August 8, 2013 By Anne 3 Comments

The UK has seen too much social cruelty this past week, and now tragedy as well, with the suicide of 14-year-old Hannah Smith. Though there has been plenty of news coverage and analysis already – linking Hannah's suicide to cruel comments in social site Ask.fm – a formal inquiry into what happened has only just begun, the BBC reported. And suicide prevention experts on both sides of the Atlantic … [Read more...] about UK’s teen suicide tragedy: Problems, solutions

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: ask.fm, bullying, cyberbullying, Diane Abbott, Hannah Smith, risk prevention, SEL, social literacy, Social Media, suicide

Ask.fm: Correction from UK hotline

May 2, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

Last week I focused on the widely reported story about the Q&A-format social site Ask.fm in a post about the whack-a-mole tendency that surfaces whenever social cruelty shows up in Web sites young people use. My position on that hasn't changed, but I do want to publish this correction about one point: In that post, I quoted a statement by a reporter at the UK-based Daily Mail that turns out to … [Read more...] about Ask.fm: Correction from UK hotline

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: ask.fm, correction, customer service, moderators, Safer Internet Helpline, Safer Internet UK

Social cruelty on Ask.fm & the whack-a-mole tendency

April 22, 2013 By Anne 13 Comments

Remember Formspring.me? Three years ago some terrible trolling that reportedly involved teens in New Jersey made the site, which announced it was shutting down* last month, a national news story in the US. Teens' viral adoption of Formspring and its format (ask a question, get an anonymous answer) reportedly took the site by surprise. Disturbing news coverage and letters sent home by school … [Read more...] about Social cruelty on Ask.fm & the whack-a-mole tendency

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Parenting, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: Am I pretty?, ask.fm, cyberbullying, Formspring, Internet safety, online safety, Parenting, resilience, respect, Social Media, whack-a-mole

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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