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Facebook’s ‘Home’: New layer in the mobile layercake

April 5, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

Although as of this writing, a search of Google News turned up nearly 2,000 news stories about it, the new uber app for Android phones that Facebook unveiled today isn't really big news for families. I know I just wrote about the teen mobile trend, but I sincerely doubt teens will want their use of the mobile platform dominated by any single service. Their mobile socializing is nothing if not … [Read more...] about Facebook’s ‘Home’: New layer in the mobile layercake

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: apps, cellphones, Facebook, Home, mobile phones, mobile socializing, social networking

Thoughts on social media time-outs (for all ages)

February 7, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

I can see why Pew Internet looked only at Facebook for its just-released study, since it's the 600-pound gorilla of online socializing in the US and now used by 67% of US adults. Pew found that 61% of those Facebook users say that at some point they've "voluntarily taken a break" from using the site for several weeks or more, and 20% of the online adults who don't use Facebook "say they once used … [Read more...] about Thoughts on social media time-outs (for all ages)

Filed Under: Parenting, Research, Social Media Tagged With: digital drama, Facebook, Parenting, Pew Internet Project, Social Media, social media research, social networking

A social media company’s social-emotional learning

January 25, 2013 By Anne 3 Comments

FB social reporting flow screenshot

One of the fascinating impacts of our now very social media environment is technology companies having to learn a whole lot about the best and worst of humanity – and, for their own and their users' sake, about how to foster the best of it. Facebook, for example, has an engineering team working with empathy researchers, and this has direct impact on young users' social experiences, wherever FB's … [Read more...] about A social media company’s social-emotional learning

Filed Under: empathy, Literacy & Citizenship, Research, Risk & Safety Tagged With: abuse reports, Arturo Bejar, Mac Brackett, SEL, social literacy, Social Media, social networking, social reporting, social-emotional learning

A parent’s-eye-view of Facebook’s new ‘Graph Search’

January 15, 2013 By Anne 4 Comments

Facebook unveiled its new, updated search tool today, TechCrunch and a massive number of other news outlets reported. Its name "Graph" is from CEO Mark Zuckerberg's term "social graph," which means it's Facebook's version of social-network search – search personalized by algorithms to users' own social circles. Yes, it competes with Google's personalized search results that appear on the top of … [Read more...] about A parent’s-eye-view of Facebook’s new ‘Graph Search’

Filed Under: geolocation, mobile, search, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: Facebook, Graph search, search, Social Media, social networking, social search

Teens’ Top 5 social media picks: DIY survey

January 11, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

Nothing formal and scientific, but a quick up-to-the-minute snapshot: To get a handle on current social media use by teens and young adults, Silicon Valley investor Gary Tan blogged, he conducted a little survey with DIY market research startup Survata. He wrote that he asked just under 546 13-to-18-year-olds and 492 19-to-25-year-olds what social media services they use regularly. What he found … [Read more...] about Teens’ Top 5 social media picks: DIY survey

Filed Under: mobile, Research, Social Media Tagged With: apps, Facebook, Instagram, mobile, Snapchat, Social Media, social networking, teens, Tumblr, twitter

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

SocialMediaHelpline.com – helping
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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
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
Future of Privacy Forum
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
Prof. Henry Jenkins's blog
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
National Association for Media Literacy Education
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
TheseLittleWaves.net, site of Galit Breen, author of Kindness Wins
"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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